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The city of Fort Bragg, named after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, will consider changing its name.
Photo: Stephen Hardley / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEmThe city of Fort Bragg, named after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, will consider changing its name.
The city of Fort Bragg, named after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, will consider changing its name.
The city of Fort Bragg, named after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, will consider changing its name.
The California city of Fort Bragg will consider changing its name in the wake of calls to remove Confederate monuments and statues across the United States, according to a post on the city's Facebook page.
"Responding to many requests (some local and many not) that the City of Fort Bragg, California change its name to avoid any connotation associated with Confederate Army General Braxton Bragg, Fort Bragg Mayor Will Lee would like to announce that at the June 22, 2020 Regular City Council meeting, the City Council will discuss whether to place the question of changing the City’s name on the ballot in November for City residents to decide," the post reads.
Fort Bragg in Mendocino County was incorporated in 1889 and named after Confederate Army General Braxton Bragg, who previously served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War.
Calls to rename the city come after George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. The protests that have followed Floyd's death have spurred efforts to question any statues, monuments or historical names that have links to racial injustice.
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The Navy, the Marines and NASCAR have embraced bans on the display of the Confederate flag, and statues of rebel heroes across the South have been vandalized or taken down, either by protesters or local authorities.
On Wednesday night, protesters pulled down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy. The 8-foot bronze figure had already been targeted for removal by city leaders, but the crowd took matters into its own hands.
Elsewhere around the South, authorities in Alabama got rid of a massive obelisk in Birmingham and a bronze likeness of a Confederate naval officer in Mobile. In Virginia, a slave auction block was removed in Fredericksburg, and protesters in Portsmouth knocked the heads off the statues of four Confederates.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Matthew Tom is a Homepage Editor at SFGATE. Email: mtom@sfgate.com.
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