Metro Nashville Public Schools is renaming Brick Church Middle School after a civil rights pioneer who helped shape Nashville’s school system.
The school will now be called Richard H. Dinkins Middle School, honoring the man who worked for decades to create equity within the district and helped desegregate Nashville schools.
Dinkins was the lead attorney for the Nashville school desegregation cases as well as other high-profile civil rights and discrimination cases. He later became a Court of Appeals Judge before retiring…