A high school named for Confederate general and slave owner Robert E. Lee will be renamed to honor civil rights icon and former congressman John Lewis. The school's new name will go into effect ...

The name, Robert E. Lee High School, is a symbol of a racist past and a general who, offered to lead either army, chose the side fighting to enslave people.John Davenport /San Antonio Express-News ...

Robert W. Lee is the namesake and 4th nephew of General Robert E. Lee. The name itself is a ... to address monuments and buildings like Lee High School named after his distant uncle.

The Fairfax County School Board will pick a new name for the former Robert E. Lee High School Thursday afternoon. Lee fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. The school board voted to change ...

The latest honor comes out of Springfield, Virginia, where the Fairfax County School Board voted Thursday to officially rename its Robert E. Lee High School after Lewis. "Rep. Lewis was a champion ...

and Lee stands for the school’s name, Robert E. Lee High School. Sure, Tyler Lee isn’t exactly Lee’s full name, but it’s “still his name,” Lamb said. “It’s just a shorter version ...

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Jim Plyler Instructional Complex. Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 as an all white school during a period of intense resistance to ...

Jacksonville’s second-oldest high school doesn’t have a name right now. But the absence of the name of Robert E. Lee High School on its main marquee at 1200 S. McDuff Ave. isn’t permanent.

Read full article: Newly rebranded Riverside High School’s logo revealed Nearly one year after Robert E. Lee High School was put up for renaming consideration by the Duval County Public Schools ...

Read full article: Talks of renaming of Robert E. Lee High School lead to larger discussion HOUSTON – An advisory committee that was formed following the debate over the name of Robert E.

the mother told me. In the end, the couple decided to send their daughter to Robert E. Lee High School, where the student body is nearly sixty per cent black and Latino. They considered a local ...