I see the author learned his northern force fed propaganda quite well
"If it had been up to Robert E. Lee, these kids wouldn't be going to school as they are today," said civil rights leader Julian Bond, now a history professor at the University of Virginia. "They can't help but wonder about honoring a man who wanted to keep them in servitude."
"In 1855, he (Jackson) defied a city ordinance in his hometown of Lexington, Virginia, by starting a Sunday school for local blacks. This class continued after Jackson’s death and "birthed" no less than three black churches. One of these churches still exists to this day in Roanoke, Virginia, where on one wall is a stained glass window in honor of Jackson – showing him kneeling in prayer."I agree Julian, we can't name schools after people like this!! Better to name them after men like Sherman, Grant, and the other guy. Lord knows their love for people of other races is well documented"There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race."---Robert E. Lee
Alas, billbears, the truth is often quite different from the facts. Jackson did not start the school. The school, sponsored by the Presbyterian Church in Lexington, existed before Jackson arrived and continued after he went to war. Jackson did not teach slaves to read. He did require the slaves that he owned to attend. As to 'birthing three black churches', I suppose that the Black Codes following the war had as much to do with that as did Jackson. Nice myth though.
"There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race."---Robert E. Lee
Please continue the quote, billbears. "The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, physically, and socially. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their further instruction as a race, and will prepare them, I hope, for better things. How long their servitude may be necessary is known and ordered by a merciful Providence. Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild and melting influences of Christianity than from the storm and tempest of fiery controversy. This influence, though slow, is sure. The doctrines and miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small portion of the human race, and even among Christian nations what gross errors still exist! While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is still onward, and give it the aid of our prayers, let us leave the progress as well as the results in the hands of Him who, chooses to work by slow influences, and with whom a thousand years are but as a single day." In other words, leave things as they are and let God sort it out.
Better to name them after men like Sherman, Grant, and the other guy. Lord knows their love for people of other races is well documented.
Better documented than either of the gentlemen you mentioned.