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A Virginia school board that voted last month to restore the names of Confederate generals to a pair of local public schools was sued Tuesday for allegedly violating the civil rights of Black students. The NAACP and the parents of five students accused the Shenandoah County school board of sending a “discriminatory and harmful message of Black inferiority and subjugation” by changing the names of Mountain View High School and Honey Run Elementary School in Quicksburg. “There’s a cold wind blowing in America and it has especially chilled Shenandoah County,” the Rev. Cozy Bailey, the Virginia NA…

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