PEOPLE FOR PMA
LET'S RENAME ROBERT LEE MOORE HALL
We don't need permission from
the administration to start calling
the building PMA.
OUR MISSION
“One time a Black got into his class and sat for a while. R. L. Moore said ‘I am not going to teach
any of this course until a certain person leaves my class.’” - Beauregard Stubblefield, 1953
We want UT to rename Robert Lee Moore Hall. Moore was a racist who refused to teach black students. Continuing to honor his legacy with the naming of our building says that we care more about his accomplishments in mathematics and teaching than we do about the students of color who wouldn’t have been welcome in his classroom.
Black and other minority groups are severely underrepresented in the sciences due to chronic and systemic discrimination. This renaming is one item on the long list of actions that UT, as an institution, must make for equity and inclusion.
WHO ARE THE PEOPLE FOR PMA?
People for PMA grew out of an equity in STEM journal club in the physics department at the University of Texas at Austin. We are graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs, alumni, and allies in the fight against racism in academia. Most of us work or study in Robert Lee Moore Hall, home to the physics, math, and astronomy departments at UT.