Public school in Mississippi, is named in honor of Jefferson Davis, first and only President of the Confederate States of America, following the 2018-2019 academic year will be referred to a school named after Barack Obama, the former President of the United States.
It was voted the school Board of Trustees in early October, reports The Hill.
As writes the edition, ninety-eight percent of school students in Davis — blacks.
«Jefferson Davis was infamous by itself, probably wouldn’t be too happy with the fact that the school is giving education to those people he wanted to keep slaves, named in his honor,» — said the President of the parent Committee of the school of Davis canal of Jefferson.
Now, schools will bear the name of man, «which fully represents the ideals and principles that we want to believe our children.»
«I fully agree with the new name,» says the President of the Board of the Camille Simms.
Change the name of the institution takes place on the background of the ongoing debate about the demolition of monuments to the Confederacy and rename the objects that were named after the leaders of the Confederacy. Controversy erupted after the August events in Charlottesville when there was a skirmish between the representatives of right-wing forces and the so-called anti-fascists.
