Missouri president Tim Wolfe has resigned after several black football players announced that they would stop participating in football activities until he did so, according to multiple media reports.
The strike was just the latest and most high-profile of student protests at Missouri over the schools' handling of racial incidents and tensions. Missouri's Legion of Black Collegians announced the strike on Saturday in this tweet:
We are no longer taking it. It's time to fight. #ConcernedStudent1950 #MizzouHungerStrike pic.twitter.com/mnPZBviqJF
— LBC (@MizzouLBC) November 8, 2015
ESPN detailed the numerous racial incidents that occurred on Missouri's campus in recent months that led to the strike:
Racial tension has been brewing at Missouri's campus in Columbia since September, when Payton Head, the Missouri Students Association president and an African-American, said he was racially abused while walking. Students protested when it took nearly a week for the university chancellor to address the incident.
Then in October, a student yelled the N-word at members of the Legion of Black Collegians in a campus plaza while they were rehearsing for a play. And later that month, someone smeared feces in the shape of a swastika on a bathroom wall in a new residence hall.
The university downplayed the incident, and more backlash toward administrators ensued, with Wolfe enduring the most.
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