Advocates seek to change school names with racist histories

“I believe a student should be proud to say, ‘My school is named after an individual who fought for my rights.’ Not one who fought to oppress me,” Sheridan Assistant Principal Julio Nuñez.

Aug 5, 2020

Educators and community members across Philadelphia are calling for the renaming of several schools with problematic namesakes in the midst of the protests for racial and social justice.

Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and Henry Sheridan schools are among the examples of institutions that honor historical figures with questionable pasts.

Education advocate Dana Carter is supportive of the effort as a member of Parents Organized for a Better School District of Philadelphia and the Racial Justice Organizing Committee, which wants the late Congressmen John Lewis and Elijah Cummings to be among the first ones to be honored.

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