By Autumn Childress |
Posted: Tue 4:30 AM, Feb 05, 2019 |
Updated: Tue 6:48 PM, Feb 05, 2019
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) — A former Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) yearbook staff member explained the process of how a racist picture like the one on Governor Ralph Northam's page could have been published.
The picture appears on Northam's page in the 1984 EVMS yearbook. It shows two people dressed up; one in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, the other in blackface.
William Elwood, who now lives in McGaheysville, was a page designer for the EVMS yearbook in 1984, the same year the picture on Northam's page was published. Elwood says the yearbook staff only published pictures that were given to them.
"Each student was allowed to submit a certain number of pictures that they wanted to appear on the page with their graduation photograph," said Elwood. "They chose their own pictures, they were submitted in a sealed envelope with their name on them, and the only time that envelope was opened was when the layout was done on their page."
In a press conference, Northam said the picture is not of him. He believes it was placed on the wrong page.
When asked about that, Elwood says the chance of a mix-up is unlikely.
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