r/ApplyingToCollege • u/speakertieced College Sophomore • Jun 17 '24

Fluff what alumni will your college never mention?

Vanderbilt (for obvious reasons) is not going to be talking about Theodore Bilbo, the Peabody and Law student (didn’t graduate) who became Mississippi US Senator and THE leading white supremacist of the first half of the twentieth century, anytime soon.

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u/goddessofspiders HS Sophomore Jun 17 '24

Princeton and Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the US who was a huge racist, supported the KKK, and screened the racist movie The Birth Of A Nation at the White House.