Lee will become Dr. Percy Julian High School. Davis will become JAG High School, representing three figures of the civil rights movement: Judge Frank Johnson, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and the Rev. Robert Graetz.
"Our job is to make our spaces comfortable for our kids. Bottom line is we're going to make decisions based on what our kids needs may be, not necessarily on sentiment around whatever nostalgia may exist," Superintendent Melvin Brown said, as reported by WSFA-TV. The new school names were given two years after education officials vowed to strip the Confederate namesakes. A debate over the school names began amid protests over racial inequality following the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. Someone ripped down a statue of Lee outside his namesake school during the demonstrations.
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