WKU names residence hall after first Black student

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Western Kentucky University has renamed a residence hall in honor of its first Black student and graduate.

The Daily News reported the school’s Board of Regents voted last week to rename Northeast Hall in honor of Margaret Munday.

The action came more than 60 years after Munday attended Western Kentucky University.

WKU President Timothy Caboni said the honor is “well-deserved” and “well-past time.”

The newspaper reports Munday is the first African American person to have a building on campus named in her honor.

Munday graduated from Western in 1960 and went on to teach music education in Logan County.