Confederate army officers’ names are “vestiges” of Shenandoah County’s segregationist history that required separate schools for Black and white students. “The Confederate names were restored with complete awareness of their historic legacy and ongoing discriminatory impact,” Urbanski wrote. The judge ordered the board to settle on new school names “on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed.” In a statement Friday, the NAACP Virginia State Conference called the ruling “a decisive victory” for students. Board members who voted to restore the Confederate names said they were honoring popular community sentiment.