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| Subject: At a Mississippi elementary school, Jefferson Davis is out and Barack Obama is in Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:56 pm | |
| Almost all of the students at Jefferson Davis International Baccalaureate Elementary School are black, and the irony of the situation is not lost on many of the children or their parents: Their school honors a man who waged a war to keep their ancestors enslaved.
“Jefferson Davis . . . would probably not be too happy about a diverse school promoting the education of the very individuals he fought to keep enslaved being named after him,” Janelle Jefferson, president of the school’s parent-teacher association, said at a recent Jackson Public Schools board meeting, according to the Clarion-Ledger.
In the latest salvo in an intensifying debate over the commemoration of Confederate leaders in public spaces, Davis IB Elementary is getting a new name: Barack Obama IB Elementary School.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/10/18/jefferson-davis-ib-elementary-school-in-mississippi-will-be-renamed-for-barack-obama/?utm_term=.993f5b50a0b0
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