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struggle4progress

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3. I grew up in Dallas but that victory happened long after I had left for good

Reply to dem in texas (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 08:46 PM

Sep 2015

Here's a 1999 Dallas Observer story: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/southern-fried-6400783

I must say, I never will understand how anyone with any decency could think a school that is 98% minority should be named for a racist like Jeff Davis

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When will Dallas schools do the right thing and get rid of Confederate names? (TX) [View all] struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP

. tabasco Sep 2015 #1

Remember Jefferson Davis Elementary School? dem in texas Sep 2015 #2

I grew up in Dallas but that victory happened long after I had left for good struggle4progress Sep 2015 #3

Old School dem in texas Sep 2015 #5

I have fond memories of Oak Cliff from forty years ago struggle4progress Sep 2015 #6

They still think they won the war of "Northern Aggression." demosincebirth Sep 2015 #4

What is more important to me is what is being taught IN those schools. Archae Sep 2015 #7