‘Big Step Backwards’: Black Students Take Virginia School Board to Court After It Brings Back Confederate Names—Then a Judge Orders Them Gone
A federal judge sided with the Virginia NAACP and five Black and biracial students and ordered a county school board to once again remove the names of three Confederate officers from two of its schools and to adopt new names “on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed.” The Shenandoah County School Board’s decision…
