Judging by Mr. Crawford’s article urging the renaming of the John M. Parker Agricultural Center on the grounds that Gov. John Parker was insufficiently woke by today’s flexible morality; the quality of history education at LSU is poor indeed. Parker was, by the standards of his time, a flaming liberal.

He was a Progressive until he became a Democrat. Although he believed in segregation, he fought the Ku Klux Klan. Stripping Troy Middleton’s name from the library set the precedent for dishonoring our forebears.

Middleton was a great educator, soldier, and administrator who served LSU honorably and effectively for decades. Although he was a segregationist, he saw the error of his ways and worked with brave men and women of good will to integrate Louisiana’s institutions in the 1960s. But his good deeds meant nothing to today’s woke racists, to the shame of LSU, which he loyally served.

Pat Briney is a an LSU Law alumni working in Lafayette, La.