Alexandria renames 2 schools that had names tied to racism
April 9, 2021
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) The Alexandria City Public Schools in northern Virginia has renamed two schools whose previous names had ties to racism.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that the school system renamed its flagship high school as well as an elementary school.
The high school was named after T.C. Williams. He was a racist former superintendent who sought to prevent integration in the 1950s and claimed that Black and white students learn differently.
The school, which gained fame with the 2000 football film “Remember the Titans,” is now named Alexandria City High School.
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Alexandria’s school board voted Thursday to change the name of T.C. Williams High School to Alexandria City High School. The new name will take effect on July 1 of this year. The school’s teams’ nickname will remain the Titans, as was made famous in the remarkably inaccurate Disney film
Remember the Titans.
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T.C. Williams was named for Thomas Chambliss Williams, a former superintendent of Alexandria’s school system who was an avowed segregationist. A long-simmering movement to shed his name picked up speed last year during the racial reckoning that followed George Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minneapolis. The school board vote followed a renaming process that solicited names from students (w
Remember the Titans starring Denzel Washington, is dumping its 56-year-old name over ties to racism.
When the school opened in 1965, it was named after former school superintendent Thomas Chambliss Williams, a strict segregationist during the 1930s. The school has long criticized its namesake, and on its website, the school system says that Williams and his history “could not have been more inconsistent with the vibrant, diverse and inclusive place we know today.”
The site adds that Williams “did everything possible to slow down the process of integration in Alexandria.” And the district has debated changing the name for some time.
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