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In June 2020, nearly forty-four years after General Middleton's passing, [[politically correct]] [[liberal]] activists and [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]] called fcr the removal of Middleton's name and bust from the campus Middleton Library. A letter in 1961 was uncovered which revealed that Middleton had blocked African Americans from LSU athletics though blacks were admitted as students at the flagship school. Edwards, who often invokes in political campaigns his own military record at [[West Point]] and the honor code, called  upon the LSU Board of Supervisors, whom he appoints, to remove any reference to Middleton from LSU, much like what [[George Orwell]] in his writings had predicted a dark future for Western Civilization. Edwards referred to Middleton as a [[Segregation|segregationist]].<ref name=namechange/>

In June 2020, nearly forty-four years after General Middleton's passing, [[politically correct]] [[liberal]] activists and [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]] called fcr the removal of Middleton's name and bust from the campus Middleton Library. A letter in 1961 was uncovered which revealed that Middleton had blocked African Americans from LSU athletics though blacks were admitted as students at the flagship school. Edwards, who often invokes in political campaigns his own military record at [[West Point]] and the honor code, called  upon the LSU Board of Supervisors, whom he appoints, to remove any reference to Middleton from LSU, much like what [[George Orwell]] in his writings had predicted a dark future for Western Civilization. Edwards referred to Middleton as a [[Segregation|segregationist]].<ref name=namechange/>

Middleton's heirs, presumably grandchildren and great-grandchildren, asked to address the LSU supervisors to defend the general from the attacks against his legacy that occurred in the wake of the [[George Floyd]] shooting death in [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]].<ref name=namechange>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_3ac98036-ace3-11ea-908e-7b1c6853d1b3.html|title=Middleton family asks to speak before LSU board about library name change|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate|date=June 12, 2020|author=Emma Kennedy|accessdate=June 14, 2020}}</ref> The supervisors voted to delete Middleton's name from the library, and within a few hours, the name was physically removed. The supervisors' action came on the day known as "[[Juneteenth]]" in the civil rights community, named for the freeing of the last [[slave]]s in the former [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] at [[Galveston]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_a50055f4-b23a-11ea-847e-fb4e868ff514.html|title=Troy H. Middleton's name removed from LSU library hours after Board approval |author=Brooks Kubena|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=June 19, 2020|accessdate=June 20, 2020}}</ref>

Middleton's heirs, presumably grandchildren and great-grandchildren, asked to address the LSU supervisors to defend the general from the attacks against his legacy that occurred in the wake of the [[George Floyd]] shooting death in [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]].<ref name=namechange>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_3ac98036-ace3-11ea-908e-7b1c6853d1b3.html|title=Middleton family asks to speak before LSU board about library name change|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate|date=June 12, 2020|author=Emma Kennedy|accessdate=June 14, 2020}}</ref> The supervisors did not meet with the Middleton family and ignored an eloquent defense of General Middleton offered by former state Representative [[Woody Jenkins]] of Baton Rouge, who knew Middleton personall, and called upon the supervisors to consider the full context of Middleton's life. The supervisors voted unanimously to delete Middleton's name from the library. Within just two hours, the name was chiseled away letter by letter. The supervisors' action came on the day known as "[[Juneteenth]]" in the civil rights community, named for the freeing of the last [[slave]]s in the former [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] at [[Galveston]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_a50055f4-b23a-11ea-847e-fb4e868ff514.html|title=Troy H. Middleton's name removed from LSU library hours after Board approval |author=Brooks Kubena|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=June 19, 2020|accessdate=June 20, 2020}}</ref>

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