Commentary: Scrub racist's name from UC Berkeley law school now
The law school at Univerity of California, Berkeley, after a yearlong review, has asked the chancellor to take the name "Boalt" off its building. The question remains, though, why John Henry Boalt's name was ever put on University of California property in the first place.
A lawyer in late 19th century Oakland, Boalt's primary legacy was a virulently racist essay that launched the campaign for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which banned immigration of Chinese laborers to the U.S. for more than 60 years. In "The Chinese Question," Boalt allowed that
