The eleventh largest school district in the U.S. has renamed a high school formerly known as Robert E. Lee High School after late civil rights icon John Lewis.
, discrimination and injustice in the Deep South. These issues still reverberate today in the Black Lives Matter movement.
"When parents teach their children what is meant by courage, the story of John Lewis will come to mind – an American who knew that change could not wait for some other person or some other time; whose life is a lesson in the fierce urgency of now," Obama said in 2011, as he was bestowing the Medal of Freedom.
This sentiment was echoed by students and community members in the recent push to commemorate Lewis in Fairfax. "Change starts at the lower levels of ourselves, then our community then our county," said a community member at the public hearing Wednesday night, local news station WJLA-TV reported.The renaming of the high school comes as calls increase for the removal of monuments to racist historical figures and renaming of schools and military bases named after Confederate generals and soldiers.
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