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A Virginia middle school that was once named after a Confederate soldier has been renamed in honor of Black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
A Virginia middle school that was once named after a Confederate soldier has been renamed in honor of African American NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson. The former Sidney Lanier Middle School in Fairfax County held a renaming ceremony Friday. Lanier was a prominent American poet and private in the Confederate army.
Lanier Middle School will now be called Katherine Johnson Middle School.