The Ku Klux Klan was established after the Civil War by Confederate veterans. The commission said the plaque “falls outside” of its purview, because the commission is solely tasked with identifying and providing recommendations on new names for Confederate markers at military installations. The report focused on Confederate markers at both West Point in New York and the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The Commission, which was established by Congress to provide recommendations to the Department of Defense on renaming Confederate markers on US military installations, released their second of three final reports to Congress on Monday. West Point, the United States Military Academy, has a plaque with the name Ku Klux Klan written out and a hooded figure displayed at the entrance to Bartlett Hall, the science center on the military academy’s campus, according to a new report from the Congressional Naming Commission.
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