The Virginia NAACP has sued school officials in a rural county after they restored Confederate military names to two schools.
Plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit filed in Virginia include students who say they don't want to be forced to glorify or represent historical figures who fought to maintain slavery and white supremacy.
The Virginia NAACP and five Shenandoah County students have filed a lawsuit against the county's school board after it voted to restore Confederate names to 2 schools, according to a release.
A Shenandoah County, Virginia school board voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school. The vote occurred four years after they were ...
Crews work to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson in Richmond in 2020. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury) Proud and satisfied, or sad and embarrassed. However citizens of the ...
The Virginia chapter of the NAACP has sued the Shenandoah County School Board over two schools being renamed after Confederate generals.
Members of Virginia's NAACP branch said Shenandoah County schools created a discriminatory environment for Black students ...
Two years before, three current school board members ran on a campaign to restore the school’s Confederate leader names, an attempt that ended at the June 9, 2022 school board meeting with a 3-3 ...
Watch: Virginia NAACP sue Shenandoah County School Board over restoration of Confederate names An education board in Virginia votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools As Hill was taken into ...