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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The name Munson Hill HS was dropped in favor of JEB Stuart HS to intimidate black kids and to try to keep them from attending the school when Brown v Board of Education was decided. The name was chosen as a part of the massive resistance movement to tell black kids they were not welcome. Not even in the back of the class. [/quote]

No.  This is the myth that has been put forward by the people who wanted to change.  You may not like the name, but it is wrong to credit people with a lie.

If you read the minutes from those meetings, Stuart was named at the same time as Lee.  There were arguments between Franconia and Springfield over the name of the school that is now Lee.  So, they passed a policy that said that schools would be named after people.  The youth from the different areas were territorial.  (Read Colbert King's article today in WAPO about gangs.  This was probably around the same time -he talks about the gang territories in DC)

Munson Hill was the name that was mentioned during the construction of Stuart because of the location--just as Westfield was called West County during the construction and South County was called South County.  My guess is that the South county people chose that name because they could not agree on anotherne--or no one wanted to call it Lorton.  Since the SB made the policy to name schools after people, they chose Jeb Stuart because he had a camp at Munson Hill.

You can dislike the name all you want.  But, [b]please do not make up stories [/b]when the correct rationale is documented.  This is a myth.

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