The descendant of University of Richmond megadonors is demanding the university return the more than $3 billion his family donated after it stripped the university law school of his ancestor's name.

In an open letter to University of Richmond President Kevin Hallock, Virginia-based attorney Robert Smith blasted the university for removing the name of his great-great-grandfather T.C. Williams from its law school and demanded that the university turn over its $3.3 billion endowment as recompense.

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"Since you and your activists went out of your way to discredit the Williams name, and since presumably the Williams family’s money is tainted, demonstrate your 'virtue' and give it all back," Smith wrote. "I suggest you immediately turn over the entire $3.3 billion endowment to the current descendants of T.C. Williams, Sr. We will use it all to fulfill the charitable purposes to which it was intended."

The university claimed it had found evidence that T.C. Williams Sr., a wealthy Virginia resident who lived through the Civil War and donated to the college, had owned slaves. But Smith noted that Williams's son, T.C. Williams Jr., was also a substantial benefactor of the university who did not own slaves. He also recounted how numerous other Williams family members donated to the Virginia college.

"The Law School was not named the T.C. Williams, Sr. Law School," he wrote. "If your board had any gratitude, it could have easily left well enough alone as certainly T.C. Williams, Jr. had no 'connection to slavery.'"

The letter recounts hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from the Williams family going back to the mid-19th century, including a $10,000 donation from Williams Sr. when the law school was established in 1888. The school also received an additional $25,000 from Williams's estate following his death in 1889.

Smith blasted the school for kowtowing to "woke" demands and said the Williams family represented everything antithetical to "radical leftists."

"You won’t release any of the documents we have requested because it will expose this deceit," Smith told the university president. "Radical Leftists hate people of accomplishment; they are jealous of them, and therefore they must be destroyed. The Williams family represents everything the Left hates; religious, upright, learned, accomplished and wealthy."

In a statement to the Washington Examiner, the University of Richmond said by renaming the law school, it was formalizing a name that had been in use for 20 years and that university rules prohibit naming institutions after slave owners.

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"The University of Richmond Board voted unanimously in fall 2022 to change the official name of the law school from the T.C. Williams School of Law to the University of Richmond School of Law," the university said. "The law school has been referred to as the University of Richmond School of Law for more than 20 years. This decision to formally adopt that name was made in accordance with Principle 6 of the Naming Principles, which states: No building, program, professorship, or other entity at the University should be named for a person who directly engaged in the trafficking and/or enslavement of others or openly advocated for the enslavement of people."