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On May 10, 2024, a new school board voted 5–1 to reverse the name change, and the school was renamed again, this time back to the original Stonewall Jackson High School. [9] As a result, the NAACP filed a lawsuit against the school district, on the grounds that the restoration endorses discrimination against Black students.
Unity Reed High School is a public secondary school in Bull Run, Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas. It was formerly known as Stonewall Jackson High School; the school was renamed in 2020 .
The names honor Confederate Gens. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby. The schools have been called Mountain View High School and Honey Run Elementary School since July ...
Stonewall Jackson High School was the name of several schools in the United States: Stonewall Jackson High School (Kanawha County, West Virginia), closed in 1989, now West Side Middle School since 2020. Unity Reed High School in Bull Run, Virginia was called Stonewall Jackson High School until 2020.
The Shenandoah County School Board voted five to one to approve a motion to reinstate the names of Stonewall Jackson High and Ashby-Lee Elementary in the small town of Quicksburg.
Many of them noted that Stonewall Jackson High was named in 1959 when it allowed only white people to attend and when Virginia political leaders were still resisting racial integration as ordered ...
Note: In 2020, the Shenandoah County School Board voted to change the name of Stonewall Jackson High School to Mountain View High School. In 2024, the school board reversed that decision, reverting the name to Stonewall Jackson High School [1]
The measure would reverse the board’s decision in 2020 to change the names of schools that had been linked to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby, three men who led the pro-slavery ...