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Tacoma man wants Spokane's Wilson Elementary renamed (WA)
Posted: Jul 29, 2015 2:21 PM EDT
Updated: Jul 29, 2015 2:26 PM EDT
A Tacoma man wants Spokane Public Schools to rename Wilson Elementary because he says the school's namesake, the 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson, was a segregationist and a racist.
Dan Hasty told The Spokesman Review Wilson's policies and views on race have bothered him for years.Hasty lives in Tacoma and has sent a similar request to the Tacoma school board to change Tacoma's Woodrow Wilson High School. Dan Voelpel, a spokesman for Tacoma Public Schools, says the name will not be changed ...
http://www.khq.com/story/29661752/tacoma-man-wants-spokanes-wilson-elementary-renamed
