Three schools in Dallas, Texas, will likely have their names changed later this month because of their connections to the Confederacy. Dallas Independent School District (DISD) officials are proposing to rename John Ireland Elementary, Sidney Lanier Expressive Arts Vanguard, and John H. Reagan Elementary, in which all namesakes had served the Confederate cause during the Civil War. Ireland led the Confederate troops before becoming governor of Texas in 1883. Under the DISD proposal, the Ireland Elementary would be renamed after Sylvia Mendez, a civil rights activist whose 1946 court case helped end segregation in California’s schools and pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision ruled that racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. Reagan was a Confederate postmaster general and served as the Confederate secretary of the Treasury. The DISD proposal would rename Reagan Elementary to Bishop Arts STEAM Academy. Lanier, a poet …