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Atlanta school named for KKK leader renamed for Hank Aaron

Atlanta school replacing KKK leader's name with Hank Aaron's

Atlanta school replacing KKK leader s name with Hank Aaron s April 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron smiles as he is honored with a street named after him outside CoolToday Park, the spring training baseball facility of the Atlanta Braves, in North Port, Fla., in this Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, file photo. An Atlanta high school that was named after a Ku Klux Klan leader will strip the name and instead honor the late baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)Curtis Compton/AP ATLANTA (AP) An Atlanta high school that was named after a Ku Klux Klan leader will strip the name and instead honor the late baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron.

Atlanta school to replace KKK leader's name with Hank Aaron

Atlanta school to replace KKK leader’s name with Hank Aaron by The Associated Press Last Updated Apr 14, 2021 at 10:14 pm EDT ATLANTA An Atlanta high school that was named after a Ku Klux Klan leader will strip the name and instead honour the late baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron. The Atlanta Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to change the name of Forrest Hill Academy to Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy, news outlets reported. The new name is expected to be in place by the time students return to the southwest Atlanta alternative school in August. Aaron, a former Atlanta Braves baseball player, died in January at the age of 86. Under the nickname “Hammerin’ Hank,” he set a wide array of career hitting records during his 23-year span, ultimately breaking Babe Ruth’s home run record while enduring racist threats.

Atlanta school named for KKK leader renamed for Hank Aaron

Atlanta school named for KKK leader renamed for Hank Aaron By FOX 5 Digital Team Published  article Baseball legend Hank Aaron speaks at the LBJ Presidential Library on January 22, 2015. (Photo by Lauren Gerson.) (Lauren Gerson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) ATLANTA - An Atlanta high school named after a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader will change its name to honor late Atlanta Braves Hall of Famer Hank Aaron. This week, the Atlanta Board of Education unanimously voted to change Forrest Hill Academy to Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy. The school had previously been named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, a general for the Confederacy who was known as the first grand wizard of the KKK.

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