Ole Miss’s Monument to White Supremacy

Updated at 12:22 p.m. ET on July 13, 2020.

Confederate ghosts still haunt the University of Mississippi, where I teach. The school’s nickname, Ole Miss, is a play on the term enslaved people used to refer to their master’s wife.  Its teams, “the Rebels,” play home games on a campus where the Confederate dead are buried, several buildings are named after former Confederates, and a Tiffany stained-glass window is dedicated to the “University Greys,” a Confederate company made up entirely of the school’s students.*

There used to be still more. In the past quarter century, UM has distanced itself from many Confederate symbols, banning fans from at football games, as its official mascot, prohibiting the band from and, after student protests, , which includes the Confederate battle emblem.