Although some of those men made contributions to Houston (or Texas) above and beyond ... Henry Grady Elementary and Sidney Lanier Middle School. First, a bit about Grady. Born in Georgia in ...

To name just a few: heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley, newsman Walter Cronkite, journalist Linda Ellerbee, former Texas Gov. Mark White, former Houston ... school named for 20th-century poet Sidney ...

Those opposed to changing the name of the Houston middle school ... Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia also are named for Lanier. Eight school targeted "Sidney Lanier is not remembered as a Confederate ...

After voting to rename four schools named after Confederate leaders, Houston ... address concerns that have been raised this week about one school in particular, Lanier. Two teachers who are held ...

On Monday night, Austin Independent School District trustees voted to change the name of that city’s Sidney Lanier High School ... move came three years after Houston trustees similarly decided ...

Long before Texas Western defeated Kentucky for the 1966 national championship – immortalized in the film “Glory Road” – there were the Sidney Lanier High School Voks ... he played for the University ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Independent School District board of trustees voted Monday night to rename Sidney Lanier Early College High School after a former student and service member killed in ...