Places Should Be Renamed, Statues Taken Down, North As Well As The South

The George Washington Educational Campus houses high schools in Manhattan. The Thomas Jefferson high school campus is in Brooklyn. Students should be involved in discussion of whether the names of these schools, as well as schools named after other slaveholding national leaders or racists, including James Madison, James Monroe, Francis Lewis, Samuel Tilden, and Andrew Jackson should be changed. Peter Stuyvesant, the last governor of New Amsterdam, was the largest private slaveholder in the Dutch colony and an avowed anti-Semite. One of the top public high schools in the city, as well as neighborhoods and housing developments, are named after him.

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