Wake school board updates school naming policy
Back in June, the school board unanimously voted to change Daniels Middle School to Oberlin Middle School following concern over the role Daniels, the publisher of the News and Observer, played in violently overthrowing a multiracial government in Wilmington in 1898.
Posted — UpdatedThe biggest change was that they are putting a formal process in place to rename schools.
Back in June, the school board unanimously voted to change Daniels Middle School to Oberlin Middle School following concern over the role Josephus Daniels, a publisher of the News and Observer, played in violently overthrowing a multiracial government in Wilmington in 1898.
The new name of the middle school honors Oberlin Village, a community built by the men and women emancipated from slavery, including families from the nearby Cameron Plantation.
James E. Harris, who had been enslaved on the Cameron Plantation, established Oberlin Village in 1866, during the Reconstruction period, and named it for his alma mater, Oberlin College in Ohio, which was a known abolitionist college.
A spokesperson for the school system said this updated policy reflected a two-year long project to update the WCPSS's policies so they aligned with the North Carolina School Boards Association.
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