A Virginia boardmember had proposed a resolution to remove the Confederate general's name from the school in February.
The eleventh largest school district in the U.S. has renamed a high school formerly known as Robert E. Lee High School after late civil rights icon John Lewis.
Representative Tamara Derenak Kaufax, who is a boardmember for where the school is located in Springfield, near Washington, D.C., proposed a resolution to remove the Confederate general's name from the school in February.“The name Robert E. Lee is forever connected to the Confederacy, and Confederate values are ones that do not align with our community,” Kaufax said in a news release.
The lawmaker, whose fight for racial justice began in Georgia in the 1960s, died of cancer last Friday. He was 80. "When parents teach their children what is meant by courage, the story of John Lewis will come to mind – an American who knew that change could not wait for some other person or some other time; whose life is a lesson in the fierce urgency of now," Obama said in 2011, as he was bestowing the Medal of Freedom.
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