From a reader:
Thanks to your blog for bringing important issues to light. I hope you'll allow me to suggest a much needed improvement to the area. Let's rename Deshler High School.
Look at it this way: You have Florence High, Sheffield High, and Muscle Shoals High. Why do we have Deshler High named after an obscure CSA general?
There is a large percentage of African-Amerian students at Tuscumbia's only secondary school. Do they enjoy attending a facility names for a Confederate general?
A proposal to erect a monument to James Deshler was recently only narrowly avoided. One way to cut off any future monument plans at the pass is to rename the school now.
Tuscumbia Board of Education, are you listening?