The Virginia NAACP and five students filed a lawsuit against a school board's decision to restore the names of Confederate leaders at two high schools.
The Virginia chapter of the NAACP and a group of students is suing the Shenandoah County School Board, after it voted last month to reinstate the names of two schools that were formerly named for Confederate generals. Virginia NAACP President Rev. Cozy Bailey called the reversal the state's 'commitment to White supremacy and the celebration of a race-based rebellion.
The board voted 5–1 on May 10 to rename Mountain View High School and Honey Run Elementary School to their previously controversial names — Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School. This reversal may be the first of its kind, The Associated Press reports. The schools names were first changed in 2020.
Bailey argued the return of the high school's original names would communicate 'inescapable reminders of Confederate legacies.' 'When students walk through the halls of renamed Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School, they will do so with inescapable reminders of Confederate legacies that enslaved and discriminated against African-descended people,' Bailey said. 'This community deserves better.
Black high schooler who wants to play on the soccer team must wear the Stonewall Jackson ‘Generals’ uniform. The student must honor a Confederate leader who fought to keep Black people in chains as slaves,' Plater said in a press release. 'Exposing children to this persistent racism and hate harms their self-worth and long-term health.' Fox News Digital has reached out to the Virginia NAACP and the Shenandoah County School Board for comment.
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