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 Thursday's agreement between students and several top
administrators at the renowned Ivy League university in New Jersey
ended a 32-hour sit-in outside Princeton President Christopher
Eisgruber's office, a university statement said.
Eisgruber said Princeton appreciated the "willingness of the
students to work with us to find a way forward".
Protest organizers from the Black Justice League have called on
Princeton to remove Wilson's name and image from its public spaces,
as well as from the university's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs.
 Wilson, the 28th U.S. president from 1913 to 1921, was a leader of
the Progressive Movement but also supported racial segregation,
which was legal and part of public policy at the time in the United
States, particularly in southern states. Segregation was banned
under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Calls for the removal of Wilson's name from Princeton, where he
served as president from 1902 to 1910, arose during a wave of
demonstrations at U.S. colleges over the treatment of minority
students.
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The Princeton students also want the school to institute a cultural
competency and diversity training program and to designate space on
campus for "cultural affinity" groups.
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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