Stahlman was " strongly anti-integration " . However , within a few years , " Stahlman was downplaying his racist rhetoric , boasting of hiring of a black reporter , and donating $ 250 to the families of black girls killed in a church bombing in Birmingham . " In 1967 , Stahlman tried to keep Stokely Carmichael from speaking on the Vanderbilt campus ; after Carmichael 's speech on April 8 , a racially charged riot broke out in North Nashville . Stahlman blamed Chancellor G. Alexander Heard for letting students invite Carmichael on campus
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