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| |name= H.F. Byrd Middle School | |||
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| |superintendent= Patrick Kinlaw | |||
| |principal= Cheryl Guempel | |||
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| '''Harry F. Byrd Middle School''' (known locally as "Byrd Middle School") is located in the West End of ], ] (near ]). It was founded in 1971 in honor of the late Senator Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.<ref>{{cite web |title=HF Byrd Middle School|url=http://schools.henrico.k12.va.us/byrd/about-us/|accessdate=May 5, 2016|publisher=Henrico County Public Schools|date=January 23, 2016}}</ref> | |||
| Byrd Middle School is a ] named for Harry Byrd, a Virginia Senator from 1915-1925 and subsequently a Governor of Virginia from 1926 to 1930. The senator was also a newspaper publisher, state fuel commissioner, and chairman of the Democratic state committee in 1922. Despite the senator being an avowed ].,<ref>Clarence M. Dunnaville, Jr., ''Governors Recognized for Historic Contributions,'' Virginia Lawyer, Apr. 2014, Vol. 62, Page 44-48</ref> the Byrd School (as it was then known) was a fully integrated school at its founding. | |||
| On April 2016, the local school board voted to be rename the school in response to a grassroots effort that convinced board members that having a school named after a man who vigorously supported school segregation was inappropriate.<ref>{{cite news|title=''WTVR TV - Board approves Quioccasin Middle School as new name for Byrd Middle''|url=http://wtvr.com/2016/04/28/byrd-middle-new-name/|accessdate=May 5, 2016|publisher=WTVR TV CBS 6 News|date=April 29, 2016}}</ref> This was due to Byrd's vehement opposition to ] of the public schools, and advocation of a policy of "]" that led to closure of some public school systems in Virginia between 1959 and 1964.<ref>Ronald L. Heinemann, ''Harry Byrd of Virginia'' (1996)</ref> This policy created a large subset of black students who were denied their education in several Virginia counties. These students, many of whom are still alive, are known as the "lost generation."<ref>Terence Hicks, Abdul Pitre, eds., "The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County" (2005)</ref> | |||
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