SPLC Places Both Deshlers on its Newest List

 

About six years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center created a list of Confederate-named entities in the United States. Some were rather suspect, as in Joe Wheeler who returned to the U.S. Army after the Civil War, but others such as James Desher were obvious targets.

One of our readers sent us a blog at that time: Rename Desher High?

Now the SPLC has released a fourth edition of its hit list, and both Deshler High and Deshler Middle School made it:

(We took a screenshot directly from the SPLC map and have no idea why an unrelated school is listed between the two Tuscumbia schools.)

Will this new list change anything about Deshler? We doubt it. If we knew the evil some well-known Alabama names had done, we would think nothing of the young Tuscumbia general.