(Reuters) - The supervisory board of the Virginia Military Institute on Friday said ... a Confederate general during the American Civil War and former instructor at the school.

Wins will step down in June from his post as the first Black superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute after the school ... There was an ”outdated” reverence for the Civil War and Confederacy.

Wins, a Black man leading a school whose cadets fought and died for the Confederacy, won some uphill battles, including removing a prominent statue of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. But VMI’s powerful ...

By Stephanie Saul The board of Virginia Military Institute voted on Friday against extending the contract of Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins, the college’s first Black superintendent. The school’s ...

Wins will step down in June from his post as the first Black superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute after ... outdated” reverence for the Civil War and Confederacy.