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Over 200 community members are petitioning to change Topsail Elementary’s name back to Annandale, the all-Black school that opened in 1956 and closed in 1968. WHQR reports on the efforts to preserve the school’s history.
Name restoration ceremony held for C.F. Pope Elementary Name restored for former Burgaw Elementary School By WECT Staff | December 10, 2020 at 3:57 PM EST - Updated December 10 at 6:30 PM BURGAW, N.C. (WECT) - School and community leaders took part in a name restoration ceremony Thursday for C.F. Pope Elementary School. A group of C.F. Pope alumni had signed a petition to get the name changed back. “It truly is a blessing to be here this morning in this honor of our past name: C.F. Pope,” Arnold Moore said Thursday. “Well, it used to be high school, but C.F. Pope Elementary now. It...