MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAKA) – Alabama State University has returned the name of former trustee Joe L. Reed, the father of Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed, to its Acadome.
Joe L. Reed is a former city council member, was a leader of the Alabama Education Association and is still involved in the state Democratic Party.
Reed is an ASU graduate and had also been on the Board of Trustees.
The building had been known as the “Joe L. Reed Acadome” until 2008, when other board members voted to remove his name because they said he was bringing bad publicity to the university.
It was later renamed the “Dunn-Oliver Acadome.”…