11-28-2021, 11:19 PM
New Jersey to remove President Woodrow Wilson's name from high school over his support for the KKK and Confederacy: School may now be named after Obama or late civil rights leader John Lewis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...PvDiDC-R2Y
- The Camden School District voted to change the name of Woodrow Wilson High School last year, but due to COVID-19 priorities, the process was postponed
- Contenders to have the school named after them are former President Barack Obama and civil rights activist John Lewis
- Woodrow, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, once governor of New Jersey and the 28th president of the United States, led the country during the First World War
- However, he had a history of promoting the Klu Klux Klan, Confederacy sentiments, and racially re-segregating the federal civil service
- According to a Forbes report last year, 20percent of the 208 US schools bearing the name of Confederate figures were in the process of getting rid of them
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...PvDiDC-R2Y