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October 23, 2017

Jackson, MS to Rename School After Obama, Ditching Confederate Name
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And in Jackson, Mississippi, the local school board has voted
overwhelmingly to rename the Davis International Baccalaureate
Elementary School after President Barack Obama. The campaign began after
a former fourth grader at the school wrote a book review of a biography
of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis-after whom the school is
named.


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