Over 20,000 People Want to Rename the High School Maya Angelou Attended—After Her
how and where he’s been memorialized. In the Bay Area, for example, George Washington High School is named after our first president, even though Washington during his lifetime, and the region didn’t become part of the United States until a half-century after his death.That’s why, this month, I helped launch a to rename San Francisco’s George Washington High School after its most distinguished alumna—the iconic poet, author, and activist Maya Angelou.