The only public high school in Alexandria, Virginia, could have a new name depending on how the city’s school board votes Monday.
T.C. Williams High School is named after Thomas Chambliss Williams, a former superintendent for the Alexandria City Public Schools system from the mid-1930s until 1963.
, Williams resisted desegregation and argued that Black and white students learned differently and should remain in separate schools.
ACPS started the , particularly those of T.C. Williams and Matthew Maury Elementary School 鈥� which is named after a Confederate naval officer and astronomer.
Maury’s statue was removed from Richmond’s Monument Avenue in July.
Alexandria NAACP president Christopher Harris, a T.C. Williams alumnus, told a meeting of the Identity Project on renaming schools that, “I think we have enough educated people in the city to find a way to maintain the great history of the school…even as we transition to possibly a different name.”
Votes on whether to change T.C. and Maury’s names will take place at 5 p.m. Monday, signaling the final step in a process that started this summer.
