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Originally Posted by MarchHare
What I find most interesting in the above image is how the vast majority of schools being named for Confederate leaders occurred during the civil rights era, a time when American schools were being desegregated. I'm sure that's entirely coincidental and not at all intended to be a giant F U to the newly enrolled black students.
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And similarly, many of those constructed on courthouse grounds were done immediately after the Plessy vs. Ferguson case of 1896, which attempted to challenge segregation through the courts.