Virginia’s NAACP is suing the school board of Shenandoah County for reinstating Confederate names to two public schools.
“The Virginia NAACP is bringing this lawsuit on behalf of its members and families, including students in the Shenandoah County school system,” the NAACP’sannouncing the lawsuit reads. “The families whose children attend Shenandoah County Public Schools seek the removal of Confederate names and mascots and to prevent any future naming involving Confederate leaders. The Virginia NAACP will not allow localities to advance white supremacy.
One board member, Thomas Street, explained the board’s decision. “How it was done in 2020, it was not done right,” Street said, criticizing the 2020 decision to discard the schools’ names for its lack of transparency and “knee-jerk” reaction. Crews work to remove one of the country’s largest remaining monuments to the Confederacy, a towering statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue, on Sept. 8, 2021, in Richmond, Virginia.
The initiative to remove Confederate memorabilia from the public eye surged after George Floyd’s death sparked the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement. In major cities across the nation, including Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle, and Philadelphia, the movement often exploded into riots, violence, arson, and the destruction of private property.
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