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HISD to rename 3 schools named after Confederate figures (TX)
By Ericka Mellon
Updated 10:45 pm, Thursday, February 11, 2016
A split Houston school board voted Thursday to order the renaming of three more campuses named after men tied to the Confederacy ...
The new campuses to be renamed, joining four others approved on split votes in January, are Albert Sidney Johnston and Sidney Lanier middle schools and Jefferson Davis High School. Johnston was a high-ranking Confederate general, Lanier was a Confederate soldier and poet, and Davis was president of the Confederacy.
Nearly all the votes were along racial lines, with the black and Hispanic board members voting in favor of the name changes ...
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-news-6825090.php