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Peoria High fight draws calls for consequences at School Board forum

PPS takes comments on Jefferson School name change

Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD PEORIA, Ill. Emotions predictably ran high Wednesday night during the Peoria School District 150 Board of Education town hall meeting regarding the renaming of Thomas Jefferson Primary School. The board on Sept. 21, 2020 voted to rename six buildings, the Jefferson building being one of them. It was recommended to the board December to rename it after Martin Luther King confidant and adviser Rev. C.T. Vivian and, in January, President Dr. Doug Shaw made it a proposal. A vote at the Apr. 9 board meeting to formally change the name was tabled. Peoria American Civil Liberties Union President Spanky Edwards spoke highly in favor of Vivian.

Proposed Jefferson School Renaming Continues To Spark Debate in Peoria

Courtesy Google Maps Street View The proposed renaming of Thomas Jefferson Primary School after the late civil rights leader C.T. Vivian continues to evoke strong reactions in Peoria. At a town hall meeting Wednesday night, former ACLU Peoria Chapter president Spanky Edwards said Jefferson was a hypocrite, writing that all men are created equal in the Declaration of Independence despite being a slaveholder himself. In 2021, with what is going on around the entire world, and what is happening in America, C.T. Vivian is a 10 times better 100 times better candidate to have a honor of a school named after him than a deplorable president who owned slaves and raped slaves, Edwards said.

PPS takes comments on Jefferson School name change

PPS takes comments on Jefferson School name change