Oscar winners work to strip school’s Confederate name
By T. Rees Shapiro
August 23 at 5:41 PM
A movement to change the name of a high school honoring Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart has gained support from Hollywood ...
Stuart High, in Fairfax County, Va., opened in 1959 amid heightened racial tension after the U.S. Supreme Court decision five years earlier that ordered the desegregation of public schools. The choice to use Stuart for the school’s name was widely seen as a not-so-veiled attack on that decision.
A group of Stuart students and alumni began a campaign to change the school’s name in June ...
“We name our buildings, monuments, and parks after exalted and heroic individuals as a way to honor them, and inspire ourselves to do better and reach for more in our own lives,” Moore said in a statement to The Washington Post. “It is reprehensible to me that in this day and age a school should carry and celebrate the name of a person who fought for the enslavement of other human beings. I think the students of this school deserve better than that moniker” ...
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