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Students are shown in Fresno State's Henry Madden Library in 2009. Madden was found to have held "deeply antisemitic views and Nazi sympathies," prompting the school to rename the building. (Eric ...
Fresno State’s library named for a man who expressed ‘clear antisemitic hate’ and Nazi sympathies, university says Public university in California to study renaming its Henry Madden Library ...
California State University trustees voted to remove the name of a former librarian from the Fresno State library after revelations in his personal documents that he held antisemitic views and was ...
Students, guests and staff gather around in February 2009 to celebrate the expansion of the then-Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno. Madden’s name was removed from the ...
California State University, Fresno, is considering changing the name of its college library after new information surfaced revealing the person the building is named after was antisemitic and expr… ...
Fresno State professor Dr. Bradley Hart briefly mentioned the university library's namesake in his 2018 book Hitler's American Friends. Three years later, Madden's words shocked the first Fresno ...
FRESNO, Calif. — California State University trustees voted to remove the name of a former librarian from the Fresno State library after revelations in his personal documents that he held ...
Henry Madden, the namesake of Fresno State’s library, once wrote that he had hatred for Jews and expressed great admiration for Nazis, Adolph Hitler.
California State University, Fresno, will officially rename the Henry Madden Library, dropping its namesake over his antisemitic views, a move formalized Wednesday by a vote of the California State ...
Madden was librarian at the school from 1949 to 1979, and the university’s central library was named for him in 1981. He donated his papers to the library, including private correspondence, but ...
Fresno State University has determined that Henry Miller Madden, for whom the school’s library was named, expressed vicious antisemitic views, as well as heartfelt admiration for Hitler and the ...
Fresno State will change the name of its library, whose namesake was found to have held “deeply antisemitic views and Nazi sympathies,” university officials said.