Many U.S. military bases in the South were named in the 1900s after Confederate officers. Amid international protests against systemic racism and anti-Blackness, there's a renewed call to rename them.
A sign at Fort Bragg, N.C., one of the army bases named after a Confederate leader. As the nation erupts in protests over police treatment of African Americans, these base names are coming under scrutiny — again.A sign at Fort Bragg, N.C., one of the army bases named after a Confederate leader. As the nation erupts in protests over police treatment of African Americans, these base names are coming under scrutiny — again.It was the summer of 1917.
The first of these camps in the South were Camp Lee in Virginia, named after the Confederate commander Robert E. Lee, and Camp Beauregard in Louisiana, after another confederate general, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. "Why would the U.S. Army name its largest base after one of the most senior generals in the Confederate Army?" he asked.
Petraeus wrote that throughout his Army career he encountered enthusiasm for rebel commanders and"a special veneration for Lee." Three years ago, following a rally of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va., a Democratic lawmaker from New York, Rep. Yvette Clarke, introduced a bill requiring the defense secretary to change the names of installations"named after individuals who took up arms against the US in the Civil War."In 2017, the Congressional Research Service looked into the issue.
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