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Two Waukegan middle schools were renamed Tuesday for a pair of civil rights icons U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia and Edith M. Smith, who began a legal battle which desegregated a local elementary school in the 1960s.
Proposal to name Waukegan school after Obamas draws protest
Updated 4/3/2021 5:21 PM
As Waukegan s Board of Education considers changing the names of two of its schools, protesters are objecting to a proposal that one of them be named after the nation s first Black president and his wife.
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is named after the nation s third president, who owned slaves. Daniel Webster Middle School is named after a former senator who supported slavery.
Renaming committees were formed for each school, and included people in the community, students and staff. Barack and Michelle Obama is one of the top three choices for Jefferson school s new name.
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