MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Two high schools in Alabama's capital, a hub of the civil rights movement, will no longer bear the names of Confederate leaders.
The schools opened in the 1950s and 1960s as all or mostly white but now serve student populations that are more than 85% African American. Julian was a chemist and teacher who was born in Montgomery. Johnson was a federal judge whose rulings helped end segregation and enforce voting rights. Abernathy was a pastor and leader in the civil rights movement. Graetz was the only white pastor who openly supported the Montgomery bus boycott and became the target of scorn and bombings for doing so.
Like many other Confederate-named schools, Lee — named for the Confederate Army general — opened as an all-white school in 1955 as the South was actively fighting integration. Davis, named for the Confederate president, opened in 1968. But white flight after integration orders and shifting demographics meant the schools became heavily African American.
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