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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh god, if they ever decide to rename Blair to "Four Corners High School", then that'd be a dreading name, heck it'd sound boring. I know it's hard to determine what'd be a good rename for Blair because it connects to both Silver Spring and Takoma Park and there'd be some debate on how the renaming process of the school goes.

Why not just rename John Poole MS to Poolesville MS? [/quote]

Why do they even want to rename Blair? He notably fought for Dred Scott's freedom. He was against slavery, if I'm correct?[/quote]

This is from the article that was linked.

[quote]One of the most surprising parts of his research, Buglass said, was learning that there was a stronger connection between slavery and Montgomery Blair. According to the report, Blair has a “complex, even contradictory legacy” because he had argued for the freedom of an enslaved man in the U.S. Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, but strongly opposed equal rights for Blacks after the Civil War.

Buglass said that through looking at census records in Missouri, where the Blair family lived before moving to their country estate – which was called Silver Spring at the time – he found that Blair was listed as enslaving one person in 1850.[/quote][/quote]

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