{"id":21095,"date":"2014-01-08T07:39:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T12:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21095"},"modified":"2014-01-27T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:28:22","slug":"duval-school-replaces-kkk-affiliated-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/01\/08\/duval-school-replaces-kkk-affiliated-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville School Replaces KKK-Affiliated Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20963\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Nathan B. Forrest High will get a new name\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/12\/photo-11.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20963\" alt=\"Nathan B. Forrest High will get a new name\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/12\/photo-11-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/12\/photo-11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/12\/photo-11-620x465.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Sammy Mack \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan B. Forrest High will get a new name<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nathan B. Forrest High\u2014the Jacksonville school named for the Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader\u2014has a new name.<\/p>\n<p>The Duval County School Board voted to rename school #241 on Tuesday. Starting in the fall it will be Westside Senior High.<\/p>\n<p>From the moment it was named in 1959, there\u2019s been controversy over Forrest High, home of the Rebels.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008 the school board elected not to rename the majority African American school.\u00a0 The votes fell along color lines.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/12\/18\/whats-in-a-high-school-name-history-and-power\/\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: What\u2019s In A High School Name? History And Power<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s a different school board now. And last month, the board members and superintendent voted unanimously to change the name.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21095-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/ForrestName_-_VR_-_Mack_web.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/ForrestName_-_VR_-_Mack_web.mp3\">https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/ForrestName_-_VR_-_Mack_web.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Community members and current students were given a chance to weigh in before the board reconvened and a new name was chosen. Naming the school for a person wasn\u2019t an option; there\u2019s now a prohibition against naming schools for people\u2014alive or dead.<\/p>\n<p>Westside is the school\u2019s neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan B. Forrest High\u2014the Jacksonville school named for the Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader\u2014has a new name. The Duval County School Board voted to rename school #241 on Tuesday. Starting in the fall it will be Westside Senior High. From the moment it was named in 1959, there\u2019s been controversy over Forrest High, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21095"}],"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=21095"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21098,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21095\/revisions\/21098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}