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Provided“I stand around changing the names and making sure that people of color are prioritized in the process of changing the name, so the name change isn’t cosmetic and people still feel harmed by the process that should have been empowering,” Swinney says.One publicly funded charter school also might be renamed. And, for me, it’s important that all of this work be through a process that really starts to teach what this history really means, that starts to reckon with racist ideas and that helps people to really have conversations with race that are not generally happening outside of friend circles.”Swinney says he’ll lead an effort to change the names first at those schools named for anyone involved in slavery, with people of color at the center of the discussions.He says CPS might then look at schools named for 35 others known to have publicly said or done racist or misogynistic things.Maurice Swinney, chief equity officer for the Chicago Public Schools, says he’ll lead an effort to change names of schools whose namesakes were involved in slavery. “And we got to disrupt it, we got to stop it, we got to change it. The couple donated money for its new building.Now, amid the nationwide racial reckoning sparked by the violent death of George Floyd, an African American man whose death in late May was caught on camera as a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, Chicago school officials say they are reviewing school names and that changes will be made.“It’s dehumanizing, and it’s something that we have to work on and change,” says Maurice Swinney, the top CPS official for racial equity. One South Side elementary school in Washington Heights that’s named for Washington’s plantation — where hundreds toiled in bondage — today has a student population that’s 98.7% Black.Chicago Public Schools officials say they weren’t aware of how many schools remain named for slaveholders until shown the Sun-Times’ findings.They also say they didn’t realize before being asked about those findings regarding the nation’s third-largest public school system, in which nine of 10 children identify as Black, Brown or indigenous, that schools named for white people outnumber those named for African Americans by a ratio of four-to-one, Latinos by nine-to-one and indigenous people by more than 120-to-1.One public school — a government-funded but privately run charter school — is named for an Asian American woman and her Italian American husband.In Chicago, statues depicting Christopher Columbus were taken down to protest the treatment — including torture and rape — of the indigenous people he and his crews found in the New World. Other school districts are in the process of renaming schools, with San Francisco’s school board considering replacing the names of one-third of its schools. Confederate flags and statues have been removed. CPS changes part of a national reckoningAcross the nation, there’s been a growing sentiment that problematic symbols and names of public institutions need rethinking: Acero says it will ask community members if they want to change it.Wells.But Columbus didn’t come down without a fight. What was until 2019 Congress Parkway now bears the name of pioneering Black investigative journalist Ida B. The Chicago City Council is debating a proposal to rename Lake Shore Drive for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, Chicago’s first non-indigenous settler and de facto founder.
![]() ![]() But she’s unsure about the possibility of changing the name.“We have one of the biggest alumni associations,” Jackson-Williams says. Pat Nabong / Sun-TimesUnlike Bridges, his classmate Jackson-Williams remembers learning in class about Marshall owning slaves, which was a shock to hear. Supreme Court chief justice, who bought and kept hundreds of Black slaves. We always represent to the fullest, and us not knowing who the person really was, it’s disturbing now that you told me that.”Reggie Bridges, 18, a recent graduate of John Marshall High School, says “it’s crazy” that four of the five CPS schools he’s attended were named for white people, including the storied U.S. ![]() That designation, as her classmate Adrian Salazar puts it, boosted the pride of Hancock’s students “like you earned your spot there, so you want to represent it and show everybody.”About 92% of students at the school in West Elsdon identify as Latino, with a smattering of white, Black and Asian American students.“The community that this school is in is mostly minorities, and most students support the Black Lives Matter movement and are anti-racists,” says Ward, who’s African American and Puerto Rican.
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