Rahm Emanuel's Chicago Public Schools Officials removed Black Olympic hero's name from school - JESSE OWENS - Former Jesse Owens Elementary now officially Gompers South

The first day of classes in Chicago is just days away, but the three daughters of Jesse Owens, the African-American hero of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, are not giving up their fight to keep their father's name on a Far South Side school.

Jesse Owens Community Academy in the West Pullman neighborhood was one of 49 elementary schools the Chicago school board voted in the spring to close, with students moving to Samuel Gompers Fine Arts Option School.

But the district is keeping the Owens building open, under the Gompers name, for students in kindergarten through the third grade. Students in the fourth through eighth grades will be taught in the existing Gompers Elementary farther north.

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