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Virginia NAACP sues schools with Confederate names. The Virginia NAACP has sued school officials in a rural county after they restored Confederate military names to two schools. The federal lawsuit accuses the Shenandoah County school board of embracing segregationist values and subjecting Black students to a racially discriminatory environment. The board voted last month to revert the name of Mountain View High School back to its original name, Stonewall Jackson High School. It also voted to revert Honey Run Elementary back to Ashby Lee Elementary. The lawsuit was filed June 11 in U.S. District Court in western Virginia.