A group of high school students at Wheeler High School in Cobb County Georgia have spearheaded an effort to remove the name of Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from their high school.
The student body is majority non-white, with a 39 percent plurality of Black students.
The school was named after Wheeler at the height of the resistance to school desegregation in Cobb County.
The white majority on the school board has been blocking the change.
The current balance on the school board is four white members, all Republicans and three Black members, all Democrats.
By contrast, all countywide seats that were up for election this year were swept by Democrats, and the county commission has a 3-2 majority of Black women commissioners.
A committee to explore the issue of the names of schools was set up with one Republican, the chair, voting in favor. After he won reelection he switched his vote.
Read about it here, with quotes from the students who are leading the effort.