“O ld Times Not Forgotten,” read the headline on the article that accompanied this front page. The scene was a football game at the University of Mississippi, which four years later effectively banned the waving of Confederate flags during games. The campus today is a more inclusive place than before, says Robert C. Khayat, a former chancellor. But changing a university’s culture takes years, even generations, says Marvin P. King Jr., an associate professor of political science. Just this past April, historians at the university asked that a recently installed historical plaque near the statue of a Confederate soldier be reworded to acknowledge slavery as a cause of the Civil War.
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