{"id":20265,"date":"2013-10-04T13:11:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=20265"},"modified":"2013-10-04T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:11:18","slug":"jacksonville-discusses-changing-kkk-affiliated-name-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/10\/04\/jacksonville-discusses-changing-kkk-affiliated-name-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Discusses Changing KKK-Affiliated Name Of School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19475\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 179px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Nathan Bedford Forrest.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/07\/7-10-NathanForrest.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19475\" alt=\"Nathan Bedford Forrest.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/07\/7-10-NathanForrest-179x300.jpg\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/07\/7-10-NathanForrest-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/07\/7-10-NathanForrest.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Wikimedia Commons<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Bedford Forrest.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The movement to change the name of Jacksonville\u2019s Nathan B. Forrest High School\u2014a school named for a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/roadshow\/fts\/palmsprings_200801A41.html\"><b>confederate general and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan<\/b><\/a>\u2014got another hearing last night.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Jason Fischer, a Duval County School Board member, ended a town hall meeting about school board budgets by inviting comments on Forrest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.wjct.org\/post\/town-hall-turns-talk-forrest-high-school-name-change\">Cyd Hoskinson of WJCT reports people on both sides of the debate spoke:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Joan Cooper] says she\u2019d rather the district take the money that would be spent on new stationery, signage and the like and spend it on things students actually need.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of the name change included 67 year old Wells Todd who moved to Jacksonville from Missouri 10 years ago. \u00a0\u2026 \u201cSo you have people come here tonight who (say) you\u2019ve got to keep the name, you\u2019ve got to keep the name. It\u2019s our tradition,&#8221; Todd said.\u00a0 \u201cWas lynching a tradition? Tar and feathering a tradition? Dragging people onto chain gangs a tradition? Economic exploitation a tradition?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Duval County Schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said in an <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/07\/01\/superintendent-nikolai-vitti-on-his-first-year-in-jacksonville-race-and-the-challenges-to-florida-schools\/\"><b>interview with StateImpact Florida<\/b><\/a>, that he\u2019d support changing the name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would support a name change recommendation if brought organically to the board by the community,\u201d Vitti said.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, an <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/09\/06\/jacksonville-man-starts-online-campaign-to-rename-forrest-high-school\/\">online petition to change the name<\/a> of the predominantly African American school has gathered more than 100,000 signatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movement to change the name of Jacksonville\u2019s Nathan B. Forrest High School\u2014a school named for a\u00a0confederate general and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan\u2014got another hearing last night. On Thursday Jason Fischer, a Duval County School Board member, ended a town hall meeting about school board budgets by inviting comments on Forrest. Cyd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[873,872],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20266,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265\/revisions\/20266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}