J.E.B. Stuart High School debates school name change (VA)

By Angela Woolsey/Fairfax County Times
4 hrs ago

J.E.B. Stuart High School senior Anna Rowan first learned the details of where her school’s name came from when she took a history of the Americas class in 11th grade.

Rowan says she was already aware that James Ewell Brown Stuart fought as Confederate general during the Civil War, but it wasn’t until she took that history class that she heard her high school had received its moniker in the 1950s as a protest to federal efforts to integrate schools.

That realization inspired Rowan, her classmate Lydia Ananuel, and three other J.E.B. Stuart High School students to start a campaign to change their school’s name.

Since they launched their efforts with a video shown during their film class in June 2015, the students’ push to rename J.E.B. Stuart High School gained both local and national attention until the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) board agreed to explore the possibility of a change in February ...

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