A special commission is reviewing military assets with names tied to the Confederacy at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as well as other properties across the country. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
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Autherine Lucy Foster reacts during the dedication ceremony for Autherine Lucy Foster Hall in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Feb. 25, 2022. Gary Cosby Jr./The Tuscaloosa News/via AP/File hide caption
Autherine Lucy Foster, center, the first Black person to attend the University of Alabama, is shown discussing her return to campus following mob demonstrations in Birmingham, Ala., in 1956 with Ruby Hurley, right, Southeast regional secretary of the NAACP, and attorney Arthur Shores. Gene Herrick/AP file photo hide caption
Joseph Moore stands for a portrait at a park in Jacksonville, Fla., earlier this month. Moore worked for nearly 10 years as an undercover informant for the FBI, infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in Florida, foiling at least two murder plots, according to investigators, and investigating ties between law enforcement and the white supremacist organization. Robert Bumsted/AP hide caption
Bombing victim Sarah Collins Rudolph, pictured in 2013, argues that Ku Klux Klan members who attacked the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963 were "inspired and motivated by then-Gov. [George] Wallace's racist rhetoric." Dave Martin/AP hide caption
Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror, by Charles Lane Hanover Square Press hide caption
In 1949, Ku Klux Klan members ride down a street in Gadsden, Ala., as part of an 18-car parade. AP hide caption
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, accompanied by his wife, Pam, speaks during a news conference on Saturday. Northam has resisted widespread calls for his resignation. Steve Helber/AP hide caption
Pressure has mounted on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign after publication of a racist yearbook photo. Steve Helber/AP hide caption
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, pictured preparing to address a news conference on Thursday, issued an apology for a racist photo on his medical school yearbook page. Steve Helber/AP hide caption
Calls For Resignation As Va. Governor Apologizes for Racist Image In 1984 Yearbook
Hien Tran, 66, and her dog Lucy at the Thai Xuan Village apartment complex in Houston. Scott Dalton for NPR hide caption
Decades After Clashing With The Klan, A Thriving Vietnamese Community In Texas
Protesters shout anti-Nazi chants after chasing alt-right blogger Jason Kessler from a news conference on Aug. 13 in Charlottesville. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Protesters gesture at a man wearing a Confederate flag before a KKK rally in Charlottesville on Saturday. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Ellie Dahmer holds a photo of her late husband, Vernon. StoryCorps hide caption
What One Family Sacrificed To Help Black People Vote In 1966
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump campaigns at a rally in Eau Claire, Wis., on Tuesday. "Mr. Trump and the campaign denounces hate in any form," the campaign said in a statement Tuesday evening. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke talks to the media in Baton Rouge, La., on July 22, 2016, after registering to run for the U.S. Senate. Max Becherer/AP hide caption
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke talks to the media at the Louisiana secretary of state's office in Baton Rouge, La., on July 22, after registering to run for the U.S. Senate. "The climate of this country has moved in my direction," Duke said as he announced his candidacy, one day after Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination for president. Max Becherer/AP hide caption
In this picture released by the FBI and the State of Mississippi Attorney General's Office, the burned-out station wagon that slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were driving in is seen in June 1964 in the Bogue Chitto swamp, some 13 miles northeast of Philadelphia, Miss. FBI/State of Mississippi Attorney General's Office/Getty Images hide caption
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signs autographs for supporters at the conclusion of a rally at Millington Regional Jetport on Saturday in Millington, Tenn. Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
In this Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, photo, marchers hold up cellular phones to record the rapper Common and singer-songwriter John Legend performing at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Brynn Anderson/AP hide caption
Actors dressed in full Ku Klux Klan regalia for scenes in 1915's The Birth of a Nation. Hulton Archive/ Getty Images hide caption