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President Wilson's Name Taken Off CT Middle School; New Name Honors Black Family President Wilson's Name Taken Off CT Middle School; New Name Honors Black Family
President Wilson's Name Taken Off CT Middle School; New Name Honors Black Family Middletown is removing President Woodrow Wilson’s name from a school and replacing it with the name of a local prominent Black abolitionist family. Say hello to Beman Middle School. Goodbye, Wilson Middle School. Wilson has had his name scrubbed from a number of public buildings recently as people have become more aware of the former president’s white supremacist beliefs. Wilson famously re-segregated the federal government - installing equipment like bathrooms for Black and white people. Earlier this summer Princeton University took his name off one of their buildings.  The Middleto…

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by Kristin Palpini