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Comprehensive HIGH schools
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Elieen Hansen, Harriet Tubman
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yesBalboa High SchoolBalboa, a Spanish explorer, killed hundreds of Indigenous people. Peter Martyr d'Anghiera in his De orbe novo decades, wrote how Balboa had fed forty local homosexual men to his dogs. Balboa, upset with "a brother of the king and other young men, obliging men, [who] dressed effeminately with women's clothing [... of those which the brother of the king] went too far with unnatural" temerity, threw forty of them as food to the dogs. D'Anghiera continues his story saying that the indigenous people's "natural hate for unnatural sin" drove them so that, "spontaneously and violently, they searched for all the rest that they would know who were infected". After all, D'Anghiera mentions that "only the nobles and the gentlemen practiced that kind of desire. [... The] indigenous people knew that sodomy gravely offended God. [... And that these acts provoked] the tempests that with thunder and lightning so frequently afflicted them, or the floods that drowned their fruits that had caused hunger and sickness."[6]Links are in other bracket use your mouse to highlight link
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noPhillip & Sala Burton High SchoolPhillip and Sala Burton Academic High School was established in 1984 as a result of a Consent Decree between the City of San Francisco and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Although it opened its doors in the Silver Terrace neighborhood, today it is located at 400 Mansell Avenue, in the Southeastern corner of San Francisco. Our school was named after Phillip Burton, a member of the California Assembly from 1957 - 1964 and a U.S. Representative of California from 1964 - 1983. As a democrat, Phillip Burton championed the civil rights of others. Mr. Burton also served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict and was a delegate to Democratic National Convention from California in 1968
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noGalileo Academy of Science and Technology
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yesAbraham Lincoln High SchoolAbraham Lincoln is not seen as much of a hero at all among many American Indian Nations and Native peoples of the United States, as the majority of his policies proved to be detrimental to them. For instance, the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 helped precipitate the construction of the transcontinental railroad, which led to the significant loss of land and natural resources, as well as the loss of lifestyle and culture, for many Indigneous peoples. In addition, rampant corruption in the Indian Office, the precursor of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, continued unabated throughout Lincoln’s term and well beyond. In many cases, government-appointed Indian agents outright stole resources that were supposed to go to the tribes. In other cases, the Lincoln administration simply continued to implement discriminatory and damaging policies, like placing Indians on reservations. Beginning in 1863, the Lincoln administration oversaw the removal of the Dine' Nation (Navajo) and the Mescalero Apaches from the New Mexico Territory, forcing the Dine' to march the "Long Walk" of 450 miles to Bosque Redondo—a brutal journey. Eventually, more than 2,000 died before a treaty was signed. Also responsible for the Dakota 38+2, largest mass hanging in US historyhttps://www.nativetimes.com/index.php/life/entertainment/4793-dakota-38-documentary-recalls-killing-of-dakota-warriors. https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/janfeb-2013/lincoln-no-hero-to-native-americans/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pX6FBSUyQI
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noThurgood Marshall Academic High School
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Mission High SchoolNamed after Mission de St Francis de Asis common name is Mission Dolores. All CA missions are sites of slavery and colonization. This school also contains a mural of the colonization missionzation of California Natives with a naked Native child within the mural.
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Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High SchoolSwedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian Fascists during the later stages of World War II.https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/raoul-wallenberg-and-the-rescue-of-jews-in-budapest
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George Washington High SchoolSlaveowner, colonizer
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Alternative HIGH schools
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The Academy - San Francisco @ McAteer
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The Ruth Asawa SF School of the Arts (SOTA) (Visual and Performing Arts)
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Civic Center Secondary School
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City Arts & Technology (Charter)
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Downtown High School
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Gateway High School (Charter)
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Hilltop High School (County)
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Independence High School
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June Jordan School for Equity (Small School by Design)
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Leadership High School (Charter)
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Lowell High School (Academic Magnet) - For: James Russell LowellThis commitment to the anti-slavery cause wavered over the years, as did his opinion on African-Americans. Lowell was an abolitionist, but his opinions wavered concerning African-Americans. He advocated suffrage for blacks, yet he noted that their ability to vote could be troublesome. Even so, he wrote, "We believe the white race, by their intellectual and traditional superiority, will retain sufficient ascendancy to prevent any serious mischief from the new order of things."[117] Freed slaves, he wrote, were "dirty, lazy & lying".[118] "[27] Lowell depicted Southerners very unfavorably in his second collection of The Biglow Papers but, by 1865, admitted that Southerners were "guilty only of weakness" and, by 1868, said that he sympathized with Southerners and their viewpoint on slavery.[122] Enemies and friends of Lowell alike questioned his vacillating interest in the question of slavery. Abolitionist Samuel Joseph May accused him of trying to quit the movement because of his association with Harvard and the Boston Brahmin culture: "Having got into the smooth, dignified, self-complacent, and change-hating society of the college and its Boston circles, Lowell has gone over to the world, and to 'respectability'."[123]. JAmes Russell Lowell by Martin Duberman on page 229 gives further insight into lowell and how his opinions wavered concerning African-Americans. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell. The poet Amy Lowell featured her relative James Russell Lowell in her poem A Critical Fable (1922), the title mocking A Fable for Critics. Here, a fictional version of Lowell says he does not believe that women will ever be equal to men in the arts and "the two sexes cannot be ranked counterparts".[135]
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John O'Connell High School of Technology
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San Francisco Flex Academy
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San Francisco International High School
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Ida B. Wells Continuation High Schoolhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells
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Middle schools
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Aptos Middle Schoolsupposed to be a Ohlone word but not sure which Ohlone Language
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James Denman Middle SchoolJames Denman was SFUSD's first Superintendent but a racist. He defunded SFUSD's school for Chinese American students because he said they were incapable of learning. “Whereas, while the San Francisco Unified School District honors the Lunar New Year annually as a very important celebration among Asian cultures, SFUSD must also recognize the history, struggles, and contributions of Asian Americans in addition to holidays,” the resolution read. The document notes the early history of the school district was “marred” by racist actions starting as early as 1871 when then-Supt. James Denman closed the only school district night class offered to Chinese students since 1859 because he questioned the "legality and propriety of expending the public funds to educate these young [Chinese] men.” The resolution documents even more discriminatory acts against Asians in San Francisco, and then shows that according to Census data, Asian-American students now comprise the largest ethnic group in the school district, accounting for over 40 percent of the 55,320 public school students in San Francisco. The current interim superintendent, Myong Leigh, is a Korean American, and the city’s mayor, Ed Lee, is a Chinese American.https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-school-board-removes-oriental-rescinds-anti-asian-language/28167/Staff and parents at the school have suggested James Baldwin MS instead
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Everett Middle SchoolEdward Everett- Senator- His pro-slavery stance was unpopular with his constituents.
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Francisco Middle School*
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Gateway Middle School (Charter)
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A.P. Giannini Middle School*A.P. Giannini founded Bank of AMerica
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Herbert Hoover Middle SchoolRacist President- accepting of white supremacy. While serving as Secretary of Commerce under white supremacist Wilson, he developed a campaign for exclusionary zoning (which developed into Redlining under the FHA), headed the Better Homes in America org, which pushed for the Federal government to solidify and expand existing segregation in the North and West.https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8609&context=annals-of-iowa
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School
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James Lick Middle SchoolLick financed the racist "Early Days" statute that was removed from San Francisco's Civic Center in response to public outcry for decades. The statue has been removed for two years from public view and held in storage.https://sf.curbed.com/2017/8/22/16184590/pioneer-monument-confederate-statues
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Marina Middle School
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Presidio Middle School
Means in spanish “a fortified military settlement”, enslavement of CA Native peoples, theft of native lands
Painting by Louis Choris who shows enslaved CA Native peoples at SF's Presidio https://sheg.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/styles/content_image/public/lessons/2018-10/Picture1.png?itok=lAMvTypr
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Roosevelt Middle SchoolThe Richmond School was renamed in honor of
Theodore Roosevelt at a school board meeting on
February 10, 1910. Theodore Roosevelt - opposed civil rights and suffrage for Black folks

FDR - refused to support anti-lynching bill (proposed by his wife) and other racist policies/views (including racial engineering and limiting migration dependent on race). Roosevelt ordered the forced relocation of more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans to concentration camps after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. As Vox reports, “Japanese American internment is almost universally considered one of the most egregious things the United States has done to an entire ethnic group.” It took a Supreme Court ruling to release the detainees, most of whom could read, write, and speak English, and only a fraction of whom had spent much time in Japan
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Visitacion Valley Middle School
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Willie L. Brown Jr. Middle SchoolResponsible for much of gentrification in SF while he was mayor*
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K-8 schools
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Buena Vista/Horace Mann Alternative K-8
https://www.workers.org/2011/us/public_education_0721/
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Bessie Carmichael/FEC K-8named after a teacher
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Creative Arts Charter
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Lawton Alternative K-8Waged war on behalf of US Army. Responsible for the kidnapping of Geronimo and 27 other Apaches, who died as a US prisioner of war after kidnapped on stolen Native Land. His crime? is he wanted him and his people to be free and left alone. Also a huge part of colonizing the Phillippines, which many white Americans at the time didnt support the colonization of the Phillippines, like mark twain.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ware_Lawton
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Claire Lilienthal Alternative K-8President of the SF School Board from 1961-1967
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Madison Campus (Grades K-2) 3950 Sacramento StreetJames Madison was a slaveowner who owned a plantation. Upon becoming president, Madison said the federal government's duty was to convert the American Indians by the "participation of the improvements of which the human mind and manners are susceptible in a civilized state" he worked at colonizing Native Americans by "assimilating" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison#Native_American_policy
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Winfield Scott Campus (Grades 3-8) 3630 Divisadero StreetWinfield Scott was a U.S. military commander. President Jackson ordered Scott to personally take command of operations against the Seminole Nation, and Scott arrived in Florida by February 1836. After several months of inconclusive campaigning, he was ordered to the border of Alabama and Georgia to put down a Muscogee uprising known as the Creek War of 1836.[77] American forces under Scott, General Thomas Jesup, and Alabama Governor Clement Comer Clay quickly defeated the Muscogee.[78] Martin Van Buren, a personal friend of Scott's, assumed the presidency in 1837, and Van Buren continued Jackson's policy of Indian removal.[81] In April 1838, Van Buren placed Scott in command of the removal of Cherokee from the Southeastern United. Some of Scott's associates tried to dissuade Scott from taking command of what they viewed as an immoral mission, but Scott accepted his orders.[82] After almost all of the Cherokee refused to voluntarily relocate, Scott drew up careful plans in an attempt to ensure that his soldiers forcibly relocated the Cherokee. The Cherokee endured abuse from Scott's soldiers; one account described soldiers driving the Cherokee "like cattle, through rivers, allowing them no time to take off their shoes and stockings.[83]
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Paul Revere K-8Paul Revere served as commander of land artillery in the disastrous Penobscot Expedition of 1779, this is connected to colonizationhttps://www.history.com/news/11-things-you-may-not-know-about-paul-revere
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Rooftop Alternative Elementary K-8
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Twin Peaks Campus (Grades K-4)
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Mayeda Campus (Grades 5-8)
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Thomas Edison Charter Academy ("TECA" formerly Edison Elementary, expanded from K-5 to K-8 in 2005)Thomas Edison had a foundness for electrocuting animals, and did a whole sting of animals including Topsy the Elephant, who was a well loved circus elephant during that timehttps://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/#:~:text=Topsy%20the%20elephant%20was%20electrocuted%20at%20Luna%20Park,discredit%20a%20new%20form%20of%20electricity%3A%20alternating%20current.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k4SEJkF61g
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Alice Fong Yu Alternative K-8
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K-5 Elementary schools
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Alamo ElementaryColonization, but also means poplar tree in Spanish. “Remember the Alamo” was a call for vengeance against Mexicans that was used as a rallying cry at San Jacintohttps://therivardreport.com/remember-the-alamo-for-what-it-really-represents/https://www.texasobserver.org/remember-alamo-differently/
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Alvarado ElementarySpanish colonizer sought to steal land and resources from Indigenous people. Juan Bautista Alvarado was a member of a White elite that engaged in violent power struggles while oppressing a much larger population of Indigenous people. Alvarado himself became Governor through a coup attempt--not something we ought to be celebrating this week in particular-- and referred to Indigeneous people as "barbarians" whom he was afraid would take over from White people. (See Michael Gonzalez, "War and the Making of History: The Case of Mexican California, 1821-1846", esp. p. 18)
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Argonne Elementarythis is named after WWI Battle of the Argonne Forest, that had "seperate but equal" "colored" attilions for people of colorhttps://www.military.com/history/fighting-for-respect-african-american-soldiers-wwi.html
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Bryant ElementaryEdwin Bryant- Bryant penned frequent editorials, including editorials supporting the anti-Catholic nativism movement and a series of racist attacks on Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson for his Black common law wife and two mixed race daughters. Sold public land to private developershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Bryant_(alcalde)
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Dr. George Washington Carver Elementary
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noCésar Chávez Elementary (formerly Hawthorne Elementary)
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John Yehall Chin Elementary
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Chinese Immersion School at De Avila
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Clarendon Elementary Second CommunityNamed for the street its on, whose origins can be traced to a county in South Carolina, one of the 13 Colonies named for Edward Hyde Earl of Claredon- English Politician- Clarendon was impeached by the House of Commons for blatant violations of Habeas Corpus, for having sent prisoners out of England to places like Jersey and holding them there without benefit of trial.
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JBBP (Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program) at Clarendon
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Cleveland Elementary
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Dr. William L. Cobb ElementarySupported district policy to integrate schools
first African-American principal and assistant superintendent chair 		https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=e1ebcb639c514a0dae8e9ed83797282f
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Dr. Charles R. Drew College Preparatory AcademyHe was an African-American physician who developed ways to process and store blood plasma in "blood banks." He directed the blood plasma programs of the United States and Great Britain in World War II, but resigned after a ruling that the blood of African-Americans would be segregated. He died on April 1, 1950.
https://www.biography.com/scientist/charles-drew
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El Dorado ElementaryThis is a Spanish colonial word that celebrates conquest and colonization, as it went from a person to a place to a empire that the Spanish kept trying to colonize. This is a colonizer myth. This myth is still pushed and told to kids through the dreamworks movie about spanish colonization called The Road to El Dorado". Spanish colonizer myth and ideaology.
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Dianne Feinstein ElementaryShe repeatly protected and flew the confederate flag in front of sf city hall. https://sfbayview.com/2019/04/its-true-as-san-francisco-mayor-dianne-feinstein-did-repeatedly-fly-a-confederate-flag-in-front-of-city-hall/. Even though this flag was hung before her when a Black activist, Richard Bradley took it down, she called for his prosecution, and put the confederate flag back up instead of leaving it down. Dianne Fienstien was also agian same sex partnership and advocated agianst same sex partnership/marriage while mayor and senator. Feinstein's veto of domestic partnership law is recorded https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/10/us/partnership-law-vetoed-on-coast.html "Her corresponding neglect of community interests can still be visited at a symbolic vacant lot in Chinatown, once the site of the International Hotel. A home for elderly Filipino immigrants and their community center, the hotel was demolished 17 years ago at the behest of corporate developers backed by Feinstein. Like her promises to the community at the time, it still sits vacant." http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Mayor_Dianne_Feinstein. https://sfbayview.com/2019/04/its-true-as-san-francisco-mayor-dianne-feinstein-did-repeatedly-fly-a-confederate-flag-in-front-of-city-hall/ https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/10/us/partnership-law-vetoed-on-coast.htmlhttps://abc7news.com/dianne-feinstein-confederate-flag-elementary-school-richard-bradley-feinsten/10138792/
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Leonard R. Flynn Elementary
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Garfield Elementary"Thirteen years before he took office as president of the United States, James Abram Garfield predicted the extinction of the American Indian.

“The race of the red men will… before many generations be remembered only as a strange, weird, dreamlike specter, which once passed before the eyes of men, but had departed forever,” he said in 1868 when, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, he proposed a bill that would transfer Indian Affairs from the Interior Department to the War Department.

The Indians had unpronounceable names, crude clothing and habits of “roaming,” Garfield said. He called it a “mockery… for the representatives of the great Government of the United States to sit down in a wigwam and make treaties with a lot of painted and half naked savages.”

Garfield’s bill, designed to purge Indian Affairs of widespread corruption, failed despite his promises to “vote in the negative” on every appropriation for funding until the whole service was purified. He reintroduced the bill several times, sometimes trying to sneak it by the House as a rider on other bills.

When it continued to fail, Garfield spoke despairingly about the future of the Indians, believing nothing could be done to stop “the passage of that sad race down to the oblivion to which a larger part of them seem to be so certainly tending.” Perhaps, he concluded, it was best to let the Indians slip into extinction “as quietly and humanely as possible.”"""		https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/james-garfield-happy-to-see-natives-sink-into-extinction-saEOUg6fV02yEIPs2rKJRg
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Glen Park Elementary
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Grattan ElementaryWilliam Henry Grattan, theft of unceded Native land in CA, cofounded and was a primary member of a organization that was openly sexist towards all women and would not allowed any woman regardless of race join.https://www.maritimeheritage.org/vips/californiaPioneers.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeksO_rGepw
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Guadalupe Elementary
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Bret Harte Elementary biography
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Hillcrest Elementary
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Dolores Huerta Elementary (renamed on August 28, 2018 in honor of the co-founder of UFW Dolores Huerta, formerly Fairmont Elementary, one of the oldest elementary schools in San Francisco)Name has already been changed recently
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Jefferson Elementaryslaveowner
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Francis Scott Key ElementarySlaveowner and wrote pro-slavery verse in national anthem
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Thomas Starr King Elementary biography
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Lafayette ElementaryIf the school is named after the Marquis De Laffayette, he was a slave owner. (AMB)
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Lakeshore Elementary