EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University is moving to change the name of a campus building after learning that it’s named for a man who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan.
Stephen Nisbet’s membership card from the 1920s was discovered at a library at Central Michigan University.
MSU's human resources building is named for Nisbet, who was a member of the school’s governing board from 1962-70
Nisbet worked in education and private business and was chairman of the 1961 convention that produced Michigan’s constitution. He died in 1986.
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