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Race Collides With History In Effort to Rename School

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Tuesday April 15, 2003

A group of teachers and parents at Jefferson Elementary School are pushing to rename the building, citing concerns with Thomas Jefferson’s slaveholding past. But critics, including some parents, call the move shortsighted. -more-


John Henry Mitchell Fought to Calm Traffic in Intersection Where He Died

By PAUL KILDUFF Special to the Planet
Friday April 11, 2003

ohn Henry Mitchell, always concerned about the well-being of others, wrote several letters to the city pleading for a stop sign at the busy Shattuck Avenue corner near his home, the very intersection where he was killed by a car in January. -more-


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