In recent years, city councils and school districts nationwide have renamed buildings and removed monuments dedicated to Confederate leaders who fought to preserve slavery and White supremacy in America.

San Francisco is not the only city to take pass such a resolution. “And we are working alongside the rest of the country to dismantle symbols of racism and White supremacy culture.” “This resolution came to the school board in the wake of the attacks in Charlottesville,” said San Francisco Board of Education President Gabriela López. The board was partially motivated to draft the resolution after the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The news also comes more than a year after the school board voted to cover a controversial mural depicting images of slavery and dead Native Americans at George Washington High School. Washington and Jefferson were slaveowners.įeinstein, a former San Francisco mayor, was listed for reportedly ordering a Confederate flag to be replaced after it was torn down, according to the Sacramento Bee.

Lincoln was chosen based on “his treatment of First Nation peoples,” teacher Jeremiah Jeffries told the San Francisco Chronicle in December 2020. Schools that will be renamed include: Abraham Lincoln High School, George Washington High School, Dianne Feinstein Elementary, Roosevelt Middle School, Jefferson Elementary and Alamo Elementary. The school board said it commissioned a panel of community leaders and students in May 2018 to formally identify schools and set up a process for the changes. About half serve majority Black or nonwhite students More than 240 schools in US are named after a Confederate leader.

Prince William County Votes to Rename Stonewall Jackson High School to Unity Reed High School and Stonewall Middle School to Unity Braxton Middle School officially on July 1, 2020.

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