At the beginning of the series, Dean and Brad's middle school is desegregated but still maintains the name of the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, complete with a confederate statue outside the school. However, there was a real Montgomery public school called Jefferson Davis High School until July 2020, when the Montgomery school board voted to remove his name from the school (as well as the names of two other Confederate figures, Robert E. Lee and Sidney Lanier, from other city schools). Lee High did have a statue of its namesake, Confederate General Robert E. Lee, until June 2020--when demonstrators removed it in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. The school that showrunner Saladin K. Patterson attended was named after a successful African American businessman and community leader, Henry Loveless (1854-1921), a founding member of the landmark Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (later Dr. Martin Luther King's pulpit and a center of the civil rights movement).
