a national advisory committee on agriculture and to an inter-regional highway committee. Graves was a strong opponent of eugenic sterilization; and in 1938, he was on hand to greet 1,200 delegates to the founding session of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, a meeting of southern liberals, who addressed labor relations, farm tenancy, the poll tax, and constitutional rights and who condemned "enforced segregation within Birmingham." A fourth of the delegates were black. Military As adjutant general of the Alabama National Guard, Graves helped organize the 1st Alabama Cavalry and served on the Mexican border in 1916. In World War I, Graves, as a colonel, commanded the 117th U.S. Field Artillery in France, and upon his return to Alabama, he helped organize the state's section of the American Legion. Legacy Graves has had multiple landmarks named after him, though since 2011, most have been renamed. Currently, the University of Montevallo and University of North Alabama have Bibb Graves Halls, and Wetumpka, Alabama has a Bibb Graves Bridge, built in 1931. Auburn University had a Graves Center, which housed "a complex of thirty cottages, an amphitheatre, a large dining hall, and a brass bust of ... Bibb Graves." Graves Amphitheatre and Graves Drive are the two remaining artifacts. Because of Graves's connection to the Ku Klux Klan, several universities that once had buildings named for Graves have renamed them: Alabama A&M University, Alabama State University, Bob Jones University, Jacksonville State University, Troy University, and the University of Alabama. Bibb Graves High School in Millerville, Clay County, Alabama, closed in 2004. Bob Jones University was the first to remove Graves's name from a campus building, renaming a residence hall to honor Harry A. Ironside, a Canadian-American preacher, Bible teacher, theologian, and pastor of Moody Church in Chicago from 1929 to 1948. Alabama A&M University and Alabama State University, both historically black universities, previously had buildings named after Graves, School of Social Work and Department of Criminal Justice and a women's dormitory, respectively. In 2020, both schools' Boards of Trustees voted to remove Graves's name from the buildings. The same year, Troy University opted to rename the former Bibb Graves Hall to honor U.S. Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis. In January 2021, Jacksonville State University's (JSU) administrative building, then named Bibb Graves Hall, was renamed by the Board of Trustees "to reflect a more unified campus that believes in social justice