A Virginia lawyer is demanding University of Richmond pay $3.6 billion after removing family member's name from law school

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T.C. Williams Law School was changed to University of Richmond School of Law last year, but local lawyer Robert C. Smith, a descendant of Williams, is now asking the school to pay back his family now that the name has been changed.

A Virginia lawyer is demanding the University of Richmond pay his family more than $3 billion after the school changed the name of its law school, which was named after his relative. T.C. Williams Law School was named after a tobacco business owner who owned 25 to 40 enslaved people, according to the university, which changed the name of the school last year after hundreds of students and faculty protested.

, calling the university's decision to"dename" the T.C. Williams Law School"shameful." Smith said his family members were responsible for developing much of early Richmond and contributing to the school. Relatives continued to give to the university after T.C. Williams Sr.'s death, Smith said. T.C. Williams, Jr., who attended the school and became chairman of its executive committee,"received no compensation for his efforts," Smith said. He also helped keep the doors of the private school open, contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations.

 

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Look out, Cult45….the south is about to lose one more time.

Good!

Get em Mr. Williams!

Seems reasonable.

He's literally asking for white reparations. Bless his little heart.

Who said virtue was free?

That 3 billion should go the enslave ppl, let's talk about those reparation. I should be shame to even mention ur relatives

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