The Atlanta Board of Education is considering changing the name of a middle school named after a segregationist former Georgia governor.
WSB-TV reports that school board Chairman Courtney English has assembled a committee to take input from the community over possibly changing the name of Brown Middle School. Founded in 1923, the southwest Atlanta school is named after Joseph E. Brown, Georgia’s governor during the Civil War.
English formed the committee after some parents asked for the name to be changed.
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