PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY -- An online fundraiser to rename Stonewall Jackson Senior high and middle schools in Prince William County launched Wednesday.
Ryan Sawyers, the county's At-large School Board Chairman, a Democrat who is now seeking a seat in Congress, issued a rallying cry to supporters calling for the name changes after this past weekend's violent white nationalist protests in Charlottesville where three people died.
āWhen we name a school after someone we honor and celebrate that person. These schools were named in a time when Brown v. Board of Education, integration, and the Civil Rights Act were being implemented across our country. Under the false rhetoric of āheritage,ā these schools were, in fact, named after a Confederate icon as a āthumb in the eyeā to Federal actions ending their continued racial segregation of public schools,ā Sawyers stated.
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