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constable from the old town of
Granville in the 1800s. The school board committee then concluded that the school was named after the street, and the street was named after Harvey Custer, not Gen. George Custer. American Indian Movement (AIM) leader, Herbert Powless said AIM "had no problem as long as Custer High School was not named after the famed Indian fighter."
45:. The name of Custer High School dates to the early 1930s when it was located at what is the now closed Thomas A. Edison Middle School. The original school, located at N. 37th and W. Custer Avenue was named Custer High School after the city of Milwaukee annexed neighboring North Milwaukee in 1929. By the 1950s, the post-WWII
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published in 1876, misspelled Harvey Carter's name as "Custer" when listing the men elected as the first officials of the Town of
Granville. Granville Town Board minutes and census records from 1840 list the Constable as Harvey Carter. Carter is also listed in the 1842 and 1846 Granville census
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In 1972, Milwaukee superintendent of schools, Richard P Gousha, said there was "no conclusive evidence the school was named after Gen. George Custer," but rather, after Custer Ave. where the original Custer High School was located. Gousha said that Custer Ave. was named after Harvey Custer, a
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Warrior yearbook depict Hiawatha learning and honing his knowledge and skills to become a leader. The school mascot was a side profile head of an American Indian chief in full feathered headdress.
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