The Loudoun County school board in Northern Virginia is considering name changes for 10 of its schools because of Confederate or segregationist ties.
The Black history committee presented a total of 10 schools to the board, and suggested renaming two of them:
- Frances Hazel Reid Elementary School
- Mercer Middle School
The committee said another eight need to be studied further:
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- Ball's Bluff Elementary School
- Belmont Ridge Middle School
- Belmont Station Elementary School
- Emerick Elementary School
- Hutchinson Farm Elementary School
- Moorefield Station Elementary School
- Seldens Landing Elementary School
- Sully Elementary School
Those names have a "direct association with the enslavement of people, Daughters of the Confederacy, the Lost Cause, and the American Colonization Society," the committee said.
