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Rochester school renamed for pioneering Black educator Dr. Alice Holloway Young
When Alice Holloway Young was 4 years old, her family moved across state lines from Virginia to North Carolina. Her home state did not have a school for Black children, and North Carolina did.
To ensure their children received an education, Young's parents packed up everything they owned, sold their farm and moved the family.
And 94 years later, on her 98th birthday, Alice Young recounted this story as she stood outside of the school that now bears her name.
On Wednesday at a ceremony attended by Young and other city leaders, RCSD's School No. 3 was officially renamed the Dr. Alice Holloway Young School of Excellence.
Changing the Name
For decades, including when Young was a teacher there, School No. 3 was known as Nathaniel Rochester Middle School.
However, community members circulated a petition to rename the school because Nathaniel Rochester enslaved African people, owning them as his property.
"Nathaniel Rochester was born in Virginia in 1752 and held at least 11 people in slavery there," the Democrat and Chronicle reported. "The wealth he and other Southern speculators attained through the slave trade is what enabled them to purchase the land that would become metropolitan Roche
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RCSD looks to rename Nathaniel Rochester Middle School 3; suggestions solicited
The Rochester City School District is soliciting new names for Nathaniel Rochester Middle School Number 3, a response to student and faculty concerns about honoring the city founder given his extensive participation in the trade of enslaved people.
RCSD is holding a virtual forum on the topic at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, to be streamed on its Facebook and YouTube pages.
To sign up to participate, email superintendentsoffice@rcsdk12.org or call 585-262-8378 before noon Wednesday.
The school is in the heart of the historic Third Ward off Frederick Douglass Street and near Clarissa Street. Its student body is overwhelmingly Black and Latino.
From 2018:School 3 students thrive in advanced coursework
Nathaniel Rochester was born in Virginia in 1752 and held at least 11 people in slavery there. The wealth he and other Southern speculators attained through the slave trade is what enabled them to purchase the land that would become metropolitan Rochester.
Even after he moved to New York he continued to hold people in slavery. In some cases he emancipated them and then immediately signed them to long-term contracts for unpaid indentured servitude, documents show.
History: Rochester's founders