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Jackson, MS to Rename School After Obama, Ditching Confederate Name

HeadlineOct 23, 2017

And in Jackson, Mississippi, the local school board has voted overwhelmingly to rename the Davis International Baccalaureate Elementary School after President Barack Obama. The campaign began after a former fourth grader at the school wrote a book review of a biography of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis—after whom the school is named.

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