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    How Robert E. Lee Elementary Received Its Name

    by The Black Wall Street Times August 1, 2018
    by The Black Wall Street Times August 1, 2018

    Robert E. Lee Elementary, as a newly built school, was dedicated in honor of the Confederate General as part of a four-day-long Reunion of Confederate Veterans that happened in Tulsa in September 1918.

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    In reviewing the Confederate Soldier’s Surname on a Tulsa Public School

    by Nehemiah Frank, Founder & Editor-in-Chief May 21, 2018
    by Nehemiah Frank, Founder & Editor-in-Chief May 21, 2018

    Last week I had the privilege of sitting down with a board member who voted in favor of keeping the name out of respect for the individuals who live in the Lee District. It was one of the best conversations I have ever had in my life. We approached one another as human beings. I sat at a table across from an American who looked different from me and allowed myself to become vulnerable with the hope of reaching the heart.

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    On “Lee School”: A letter to the Mayor

    by The Black Wall Street Times March 23, 2018
    by The Black Wall Street Times March 23, 2018

    The ramifications in allowing the name of a person who protected and promoted white supremacy, white power, a Ku Klux Klan mentality, and Nazism — all racist ideologies at their core the same — to remain on the side of a public school building is detrimental to race relations for the city and the nation.

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    Lee Elementary School was named after an oppressor

    by The Black Wall Street Times March 22, 2018
    by The Black Wall Street Times March 22, 2018

    The SPLC’s report chronicles the timeline of the namings and finds that there are two distinct time periods wherein these schools were named.  The first was during the rise of Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws throughout the south and at the time of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Greenwood. The second was immediately following the Supreme Court’s decision of Brown v. Board.

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