Wesleyan College 
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SOURCE: AJC.com
8-6-18
Georgia women’s college quietly drops class names tied to Klan history
Wesleyan College officials announced they are abolishing Wesleyan’s use of its four class names over concerns they link directly back to the most menacing parts of the institution’s history.
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SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
7-31-17
Black Georgia college alums from Wesleyan College recall frightening rite of initiation
With a bass drum pounding a steady beat, young women in hooded robes and face paint — and nooses around their necks — rounded up her and other first-year students.
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SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal Constitution
6-22-17
Oldest women’s college in US – Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia – seeks to atone for Ku Klux Klan’s legacy
For decades, successive generations of school leaders seemed to downplay the troubling history, but now they are preparing to formally acknowledge Wesleyan’s Klan history, as well as ties to slavery.
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