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Tag: Confederate leaders
Opinion
When Changing a School’s Name Is a Lesson in History and Progress
In 1971, I was a fifth-grade student at J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School in Richmond, Va. My younger brother and sister and I left our home in the morning and walked the leafy avenues to the two-story brick building with the handsome rotunda greeting us on arrival. I don’t know if it was triumphant or tragic that we got to go to a school named for a racist Confederate general, but I do know it never should have come to be.
June 23, 2018
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