Waukegan, Illinois was set to change the name of a middle school from American founder Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama, when ‘Latinx’ activists launched a protest campaign, saying the 44th president was their “oppressor.”
Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence and the third US president, but he also owned slaves – so Waukegan decided to take his name off a middle school last year, amid the George Floyd protests across the US.
