Berkeley,California is a strange place where a school named after Jefferson might be renamed.
The city's board of education is expected to vote today on a proposal to change the school's name to Sequoia Elementary.
But even with that name, the school district cannot quite dodge the slavery connotations. Some community members have pointed out that under Chief Sequoia's leadership in the early 19th century, the Cherokee nation owned more than 1,500 black slaves.
Berkeley itself isn't too pure.
the City of Berkeley is named after George Berkeley, an Irish-born philosopher and Anglican bishop who brought several slaves to his Rhode Island plantation in the late 1720s.
A great moment in public education.
New York Sun
