SPOKANE, Wash. – Dan Hasty doesn’t believe Woodrow Wilson, the 28^th president of the United States, deserves to have schools named in his honor because of Wilson’s stated views on race.

The Tacoma, Washington resident is campaigning to change the name of schools in the state bearing Wilson’s name because he believes Wilson was a racist and segregationist. Hasty initially attempted to convince Tacoma Public Schools to rename Woodrow Wilson High School, and when those efforts failed he turned his sights to Spokane’s Wilson Elementary School, KHQ reports.

Wilson Elementary was named after Woodrow Wilson in 1922, the year after Wilson’s last term and two years before his death in 1924. Wilson is best known for guiding the United States through World War I and winning the Nobel Prize for his peacemaking efforts, according to the news site.

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The Confederate flag debate, however, has prompted some to highlight evidence showing Wilson was a racist, most recently in an article for The Washington Post last month that featured excerpts from Boston University historian William Keylor’s book “The Twentieth-Century World and Beyond: An International History.”

“Wilson is widely and correctly remembered — and represented in our history books — as a progressive Democrat who introduced many liberal reforms at home and fought for the extension of democratic liberties and human rights abroad. But on the issue of race his legacy was, in fact, regressive and has been largely forgotten,” Keylor wrote March 4, 2013.

“When he entered the White House a hundred years ago today, Washington was a rigidly segregated town — except for federal government agencies. They had been integrated during the post-war Reconstruction period, enabling African-Americans to obtain federal jobs and work side by side with whites in government agencies. Wilson promptly authorized members of his cabinet to reverse this long-standing policy of racial integration in the federal civil service.”

Tony Ressa, principal of Wilson Elementary, told the Associated Press in an email that Hasty is the first person he knows of to complain about the school’s name since he took over the helm eight years ago.

“The school board in Spokane said it will consider his request, but a district spokesman said the likelihood of change is slim,” according to the news service.

Tacoma Public Schools spokesman Dan Voelpel told KHQ Hasty’s request was received by the district, then promptly disregarded. The school’s name will remain Wilson Elementary, he said.

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But Hasty isn’t the first person to attempt to scrub Wilson’s name from a public school.

Wilson High School teacher Hyung Nam has been pressuring Portland, Oregon school officials to change his school’s name because of the former president’s views on race.

“(Expletive) Wilson and any school he’s named after,” Nam tweeted recently with a link to a Politico article about Wilson’s White House screening of “Birth of a Nation,” a racist silent film released in 1915.

“We’d have to be ignorant about history to continue to affiliate ourselves with this man,” Nam wrote in an email to school staff April 22, according to KOIN 6.

Portland district officials haven’t exactly embraced Nam’s call to rename his school, but the history teacher’s opinion is obviously rubbing off on his students.

“The idea of our schools being named after a person with these ideals just doesn’t sit right with a lot of people,” Maddy VanSpeybroeck, co-founder of the school’s Feminist Student Union, told the news site. “Especially as feminist ideals and racial ideals are becoming more something our nation is talking about right now.”

VanSpeybroeck said some students would prefer their school to be named after someone like Ida B. Wells, a slave turned politician.

WHS Black Student Union founder Kendall Berry told KOIN 6 students in his school’s history classes mock Wilson for his views, something Nam undoubtedly encourages.

School officials said they “don’t think anybody took (Nam’s tweet) seriously because of the language,” and that any effort to change the school’s name would have to go through the district’s renaming process.

That process requires significant community outreach, and most recently resulted in school names like Rosa Parks Elementary and Cesar Chavez School, KOIN 6 reports.