School naming honors often obscure nearby histories of slavery

Evidence

My father went to a school named after Paul Laurence Dunbar, & in the parking lot of a school christened after Francis Scott Key, drugs turned some people into three-fifths of what they were before a crack pipe. Lost in that story is a cemetery of people enslaved by George Washington. To be counted is a euphemism for freedom: A man who claims to own a man & talks about democracy is a euphemism for a gun. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 426

Categorization

• SEED: The school-naming-vs-enslaved-cemetery juxtaposition works as a short essay angle about public memory infrastructure.