Restoring History: Movement to Return Confederate-Linked Names to Schools Garners Traction

Just the News (Madeleine Hubbard), The Star News Network

The local school board is set to vote Thursday on whether the names of Lt. Gen. Stonewall

Jackson, Cmd. Turner Ashby and Gen. Robert E. Lee, all three of whom owned slaves at one time, should be restored to the schools. Scheibe is confident that the proposal will pass, especially considering a survey his organization sent out showed that it had overwhelming support. Of those responses, 91.3% of people voted in favor of reverting the schools back to their previous names. The county has an estimated population of 45,200 as of 2023.