FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno State's library will have a new name. On Wednesday, the CSU Board of Trustees voted to officially change the name of Henry Madden Library. The vote comes after a Fresno ...
Students are shown in Fresno State's Henry Madden Library in 2009. Madden was found to have held "deeply antisemitic views and Nazi sympathies," prompting the school to rename the building. (Eric Paul ...
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Weeks after a Fresno State task force found racist and anti-Semitic remarks in the writings of Henry Madden, the namesake for the university's library, the committee now ...
Students, guests and staff gather around in February 2009 to celebrate the expansion of the then-Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno. Madden’s name was removed from the library ...
The California State University board of trustees approved removing Henry Madden’s name from Fresno State’s University Library on Wednesday, following the discovery of the late university librarian’s ...
Henry Madden, the namesake of Fresno State’s beloved library, wrote to a friend during the 1930s that he developed a “violent and almost uncontrollable phobia” against Jews and expressed great ...
California State University, Fresno, will officially rename the Henry Madden Library, dropping its namesake over his antisemitic views, a move formalized Wednesday by a vote of the California State ...
Text description provided by the architects. AC Martin, in association with Hillier Architecture, designed the new library at Fresno State University, home to the largest collection of volumes in ...
The antisemitic past of the the Henry Madden Library’s namesake came to light due to research by one of Fresno’s own professors. (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Administrators at ...
Fresno State will change the name of its library, whose namesake was found to have held “deeply antisemitic views and Nazi sympathies,” university officials said. The California State University Board ...