Custer High School (Milwaukee)

Michalak was interested in kids with exceptional academic abilities, and began a new program for academically gifted kids at Custer High School, even writing a paper about it titled “A Program for High-School Youth of Superior Ability.

[3] Though the school was named after American Civil War General George Armstrong Custer, neither he nor his men were honored with images or mascots.

School colors were red and white, and the mascot was fashioned after Hiawatha, a leader from the Mohawk tribe, Images and a story line in the 1958 and 1959 Custer 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.

In the early 1970s, the American Indian Movement (AIM) began a nation-wide campaign opposing the use of indigenous people as mascots by sports teams.

[7] Granville Town Board minutes and census records from 1840 list the Constable as Harvey Carter.

[8] As was a custom of the period, Payne's development pattern included new streets named after Civil War Generals Philip Sheridan, Lewis Wallace, and George A. Custer.