The school is best known for inspiring the 2000 football film “Remember the Titans;” Titan High School was among the proposed names.
Members of the school board voted unanimously in November to rename the school after something other than Williams, who was the superintendent of the Alexandria public school system for several decades beginning in the 1930s and opposed integrating schools after the landmark Supreme Court ruling Brown vs. the Board of Education.
“This is a historic moment for everybody,” current Superintendent Gregory C. Hutchings Jr., who is Black, told reporters in November. “For many years, people have been trying to change the name of T.C. Williams, and they really have not been successful.”