Georgia Tech is attempting to make some very big changes on campus. The Atlanta Journal-Constitutionhas reported that the university’s administration has submitted a proposal to rename the university after civil rights icon John Lewis.

“John Robert Lewis was a frequent guest of GIT (Georgia Institute of Technology) during his decades of public service representing Georgia’s 5th congressional district,” a statement from the university reads, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Lewis did not attend the university, but he did represent the greater Atlanta area in Congress for several decades. He also worked alongside Atlanta native Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Morehouse College graduate Julian Bond during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Not to mention, he received an ho

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