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Petition lobbies to change Confederate-influenced school names in Port Arthur (TX)
More than 20 years have passed, but Gail Pellum still recalls how her daughter walked behind a Confederate flag to celebrate Dick Dowling Elementary School's namesake at a campus function ...Pellum said she's had a problem with the names of Dick Dowling and Robert E. Lee elementary schools for years because the campuses celebrate Confederate commanders ...
Dick Dowling led the battle of Sabine Pass in 1863, when the Union Navy attempted to enter Texas and were thwarted by Dowling's command ...
... for Pellum, a member of the African-American Cultural Society in Port Arthur, the names on the schools are a reminder of what her ancestors endured at the hands of slave owners and are offensive ...
http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Petition-lobbies-to-change-Confederate-influenced-6410539.php
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