How Many Texas Schools Still Have Confederate-Linked Names?
Four years after the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Texas is still home to the second largest number of schools named after Confederate figures, according to a new report.
This week, on the fourth anniversary of the Charlottesville rally, the Southern Poverty Law Center said it had documented at least 198 schools around the country with Confederate-themed names. Georgia led the pack with 45, and Texas came in a close second place with 40. (Conservatives regularly criticize the SPLC, insisting the watchdog includes run-of-the-mill right-wing groups on its annual hate group list.)
When white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other far-rightists rallied in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017, they came to protest against the city’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate leader Robert E. Lee. That day, one far-right participant plowed his car into a crowd of anti-racist counter-demonstrators, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
Then, the country saw another wave of Confederate statues coming down, Confederate-themed schools, parks and roads being renamed and Confederate flags being removed from public buildings.
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