List of name changes due to the George Floyd protests
After George Floyd, an African American, was killed during a police arrest in Minneapolis, United States, many people protested, in the United States and internationally. During the course of these protests, many controversial monuments and memorials were vandalized or toppled by protestors, prompting those in charge of other similar monuments to remove them from public view. Similarly, many controversial names, mascots, and other forms of symbolism were changed, due to increasing public pressure or otherwise. In some countries, other race-related and colonial issues were also raised, and some were acted upon. In some cases changes that were planned or under consideration before the protests were expedited consequent to the protests.
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Abbreviations used:
; ES : Elementary school
; HS : High school
; MS : Middle school
; TBD : To be determined
Education
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| Gladstone Hall | Liverpool | ENG | UK | – | The University of Liverpool announced that it will rename this hall of residence, named after the prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, due to "his views on slavery". | ||||
| Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design | School of Art, Architecture and Design | London | ENG | UK | London Metropolitan University announced that the school's name would no longer refer to Sir John Cass due to his links to the slave trade. | ||||
| Sir John Cass's Foundation | London | ENG | UK | – | The foundation issued a statement announcing its commitment to a change of name. | ||||
| Sir John Cass Redcoat School | London | ENG | UK | – | The school's governing body voted unanimously on June 16 for a change of name. | ||||
| Galton Lecture Theatre Pearson Lecture Theatre Pearson Building | Lecture Theatre 115 Lecture Theatre G22 North-West Wing | London | ENG | UK | University College London announced the renaming of two lecture theatres and a building named after eugenicists Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, effective immediately. | ||||
| Cass Business School | City's Business School | London | ENG | UK | City, University of London announced that its business school would be renamed to strip the name's association with slave trader Sir John Cass, and would be "referred to as City's Business School" until a consultation concluded a new name. | ||||
| P. G. T. Beauregard Hall Leonidas K. Polk Hall | College of Science and Technology College of Education and Behavioral Sciences | Thibodaux | LA | US | June 3 | June 3 | Nicholls State University president announced the renaming of two buildings on campus named for people associated with Confederacy who had no relationship to the university. | ||
| Jefferson ES Washington ES | Berkeley | CA | US | June 10 | Berkeley Unified School District school board unanimously voted to rename the two elementary schools. | ||||
| Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs | The Center for International and Public Affairs ' | Los Angeles | CA | US | June 11 | June 11 | A University of Southern California committee voted unanimously to remove Rufus B. von KleinSmid's name. Von KleinSmid was the fifth president of USC, an active supporter of eugenics and forced sterilization, and the only West Coast university president who refused to send the transcripts of Japanese American students who were released from World War II internment camps to colleges in other states. | ||
| Schott Building Schottzie Stadium | Cincinnati | OH | US | The Saint Ursula Academy Leadership Team decided to rename two of its facilities. Schottzie was Schott's dog. | |||||
| Calhoun Honors College | Clemson University Honors College | Clemson | SC | US | June 12 | June 12 | Clemson University removed the name of its founder John C. Calhoun from its honors college. | ||
| Intramural Center | William Leon Garrett Fieldhouse | Bloomington | IN | US | Indiana University Board of Trustees approved the renaming. The sports facility was formerly named "Wildermuth Intramural Center" after Ora Wildermuth, a former trustee who held "extraordinarily strong opposition to racial integration". Wildermuth's name was stripped from the facility in 2018. Bill Garrett was the "first black basketball player to regularly play in the Big Ten conference". | ||||
| Louis E. Plummer Auditorium | Fullerton | CA | US | June 16 | Fullerton Joint Union High School District Board of Trustees unanimously voted to remove Plummer's name from the Fullerton Union High School auditorium. Plummer was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. An online petition had amassed over 27,000 signatures. | ||||
| J.J. Finley ES | Gainesville | FL | US | School Board of Alachua County voted unanimously for the name change. Jesse J. Finley was a Confederate brigadier general. The board is scheduled to vote on a new name on. | |||||
| Joseph Finegan ES Stonewall Jackson ES Jefferson Davis MS Kirby-Smith MS J.E.B. Stuart MS Robert E. Lee HS | Jacksonville | FL | US | Duval County School Board unanimously approved recommendation of Board chair to begin renaming process. Finegan, Jackson, Kirby Smith, Stuart, and Lee were Confederate generals, and Davis was the Confederate president. In 2013, the Board renamed Nathan B. Forrest High School. | |||||
| Daniels MS | Oberlin MS | Raleigh | NC | US | June 16 | June 16 | Josephus Daniels was a white supremacist and newspaper founder. The school is located on Oberlin Road. | ||
| Woodrow Wilson HS | Camden | NJ | US | June 16 | School superintendent cited "the segregationist views and ideas of the former president that... have drastically reshaped his legacy" as reason for the change, and stated renaming would take place "this summer". | ||||
| Walpole HS Rebels | Walpole | MA | US | June 18 | Walpole School Committee voted unanimously to change the school's team name. More than 150 people participated in a rally for the change. Multiple Change.org petitions had called for the change, amassing over 14,000 signatures in total. | ||||
| Lee Magnet HS | Liberty HS | Baton Rouge | LA | US | East Baton Rouge school board voted to change the name. School was formerly named Robert E. Lee HS and then Lee Magnet HS. | ||||
| Woodrow Wilson Hall | Great Hall at Shadow Lawn | West Long Branch | NJ | US | June 19 | June 19 | Monmouth University's Board of Trustees unanimously voted to rename the building, after voting to keep it in 2016. | ||
| Philip J. Schuyler Achievement Academy | Albany | NY | US | The City School District of Albany announced that it would form a School Naming Policy Committee to create "a policy regarding the naming and renaming of district buildings and facilities" including that of this elementary school. Philip Schuyler was "the largest slave owner in late-1700s Albany County". The Committee was formed on, and would be creating the policy over the summer. | |||||
| Stonewall Jackson HS Stonewall MS | Unity Reed HS Unity Braxton MS | Manassas | VA | US | June 22 | School board voted unanimously to change the names. "Unity" reflected the desire of the community. Carroll Braxton is a Marine veteran of World War II and the Korean War who earned a Medal of Honor. Celestine Braxton served Prince William County Public Schools for 33 years, and worked to integrate the schools when they were segregated. Arthur Reed was a security assistant at the high school for 20 years who "had a huge impact within the school community" and "loved his school and his students". | |||
| Christopher Columbus Family Academy | New Haven | CT | US | New Haven School Board decided to rename the school. | |||||
| Robert E. Lee HS | John R. Lewis HS | Springfield | VA | US | Fairfax County School Board voted unanimously to rename the school and requested feedback and suggestions from the community. On July 23, the board voted unanimously to rename the school after the recently deceased civil rights leader John Lewis. | ||||
| Zebulon B. Vance HS | Charlotte | NC | US | June 23 | The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board officially says they have started the process to rename Zebulon B. Vance HS. | ||||
| Marge Schott Stadium Marge Schott Seminar Room | Cincinnati | OH | US | June 23 | University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees voted unanimously to rename a stadium and a library seminar room. | ||||
| Deady Hall | University Hall | Eugene | OR | US | June 24 | June 24 | University of Oregon Board of Trustees unanimously voted to remove Deady's name from the hall. The hall was temporarily renamed "University Hall". Matthew Deady was Oregon's first federal judge, and advocated for racial discrimination against African-Americans. Previous attempts to change the name had failed. | ||
| Civil War ' | OR | US | June 26 | June 26 | University of Oregon and Oregon State University have jointly decided to stop using "Civil War" to refer to athletic competitions between the two universities, effective immediately. | ||||
| Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Wilson College | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs First College | Princeton | NJ | US | June 26 | June 27 | Princeton University Board of Trustees voted to change the names because "Wilson's racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school whose scholars, students, and alumni must be firmly committed to the scourge of racism in all its forms". Wilson opposed admitting African-American students to Princeton, and introduced racial segregation into the US federal civil service as US president. | ||
| Hoey Hall Lovill Hall | Boone | NC | US | Appalachian State University Board of Trustees unanimously voted to support Chancellor Sheri Everts' plan to replace the names of the two residence halls before classes began in August. Edward Francis Lovill was a Confederate captain who "secured a bill that would ultimately lead to the creation of... the forerunner of Appalachian State" while serving as a Democratic state senator in 1885, and was "the chair of the school's first board of trustees". He was described as a "Democrat of the purest type" at a time when the party "stood for a return to white supremacy and its associated policies". | |||||
| Hoey Auditorium | University Auditorium | Cullowhee | NC | US | June 29 | June 29 | Western Carolina University's Board of Trustees unanimously voted to rename the auditorium. Clyde R. Hoey was a governor of North Carolina "who actively opposed civil rights legislation and favored racial segregation". Hoey was also against granting Hawaii statehood because it had "only a small percentage of white people". | ||
| Watson School of Biological Sciences | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences | Cold Spring Harbor | NY | US | July 1 | July 1 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Board of Trustees voted to restore the original name of its graduate school due to James Watson's views on race. | ||
| Burwell Hall | Queens Hall | Charlotte | NC | US | July 2 | July 2 | Queens University of Charlotte Board of Trustees unanimously voted to rename the main administration building. Rev. Robert Armistead Burwell was the first head of the Charlotte Female Institute, a precursor of the university. He was also a slave owner who led a Presbyterian church that excluded slaves. | ||
| Helms Center | Hawks Athletic Center | Murfreesboro | NC | US | Chowan University Board of Trustees renamed the facility because "positions taken by Senator Helms were not in keeping with the current mission of Chowan University". The history department called on the university for the change, stating that "it is now time to acknowledge the institutional racism Senator Helms embodied". | ||||
| Guy T. Gillespie Hall | Lakeview Hall | Jackson | MI | US | Belhaven University Board of Trustees renamed the residence hall. Gillespie was a segregationist and former president of the university. The renaming was supported by the Gillespie family. | ||||
| Copeia ' | Ichthyology and Herpetology | US | The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists's board voted to rename its flagship journal, starting with its first issue in 2021. Scientist Edward Drinker Cope held racist views. | ||||||
| Linnean Games ' | Entomology Games | US | Entomological Society of America renamed its student quiz bowl. Carl Linnaeus, known as the father of modern taxonomy, had "named four 'varieties' of human and ascribed to them anthropological and cultural stereotypes that are inappropriate and offensive today". | ||||||
| Stonewall Jackson MS | West Side MS | Charleston | WV | US | Kanawha County Board of Education unanimously voted to change the name. Removal of signage began the next day, and was completed a day later. Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was from West Virginia. | ||||
| Jenkins Hall | Education Building | Huntington | WV | US | Marshall University's governing board unanimously voted to remove the name of Confederate general Albert Gallatin Jenkins from the building, and use "Education Building" as a temporary name until the board voted for a new name. | ||||
| Ashby Hall Maury Hall | Valley Hall Justice Studies Hall Mountain Hall | Harrisonburg | VA | US | James Madison University Board of Visitors voted unanimously to change the names of buildings named for Turner Ashby, Stonewall Jackson, and Matthew Fontaine Maury. | ||||
| Fanning Academy of Science and Technology | Falcon Academy of Science and Technology | Brea | CA | US | Brea Olinda Unified School District Board of Education unanimously voted to change the name after the Fanning family submitted a letter to the board on requesting the name be removed. William E. Fanning may have been a KKK member. The falcon is the school's mascot. | ||||
| Parkwood HS Rebels | Monroe | NC | US | Union County Schools Board of Education voted 6–2 to change the name and mascot. An image of a Confederate soldier had been removed from the school logo earlier after the NAACP called for its change in 2009. | |||||
| Joe Jamail Field Robert L. Moore Building | Physics, Math and Astronomy Building | Austin | TX | US | University of Texas at Austin Interim President Jay Hartzell announced that the building and the football field would be renamed. Robert Lee Moore was a segregationist mathematics professor who refused to teach Black students, was "hostil toward the black community", and was "obsess with claims of intellectual differences among the races". Joe Jamail was a rich alumnus who made large donations to the university. Jamail's family requested the name change "to be more inclusive and promote diversity". | ||||
| T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum | Pensacola | FL | US | University of West Florida Historic Trust planned to change the name after learning that Wentworth was "the leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Escambia County". Wentworth had become an Exalted Cyclops in 1925, and the collection of memorabilia he donated to the state in 1983 eventually became the museum that was named after him in 1988. | |||||
| Robert E. Lee ES | Delmas Morton ES | Grand Prairie | TX | US | Grand Prairie Independent School District voted to rename the school. Delmas Morton served the children of the school district for nearly 45 years, including 17 as principal of Austin Elementary School. | ||||
| Lee-Davis HS Stonewall Jackson MS | Mechanicsville | VA | US | Hanover County School Board voted 4–3 to rename the schools and change their mascots. Lee-Davis was home of the Confederates, and Stonewall Jackson was home of the Rebels. Lee-Davis had been founded in 1959 as an all-white school. A petition to rename Lee-Davis had amassed roughly 25,000 signatures. | |||||
| Jefferson Davis HS Robert E. Lee HS Sidney Lanier HS | Montgomery | AL | US | Montgomery County Board of Education voted to rename the schools. Sidney Lanier was a Confederate private who became a prestigious poet. If a waiver to the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act is not granted, a fine of $25,000 may be imposed per renaming. A petition to rename the schools had amassed nearly 30,000 signatures. | |||||
| Oñate HS | Las Cruces | NM | US | Las Cruces Public Schools board voted to rename the school, after a community survey reported 1,350 for and 4,129 against the change. One of a number of removals of references to conquistador Juan de Oñate from public spaces in New Mexico. | |||||
| Wilson HS | Portland | OR | US | Portland Public Schools Board of Education decided to rename the school. US President Woodrow Wilson "instituted segregation in federal government agencies and was an ally of the Ku Klux Klan". Board members also supported renaming Madison High School before a planned reopening in 2021 after major renovations. | |||||
| San Antonio College Rangers | San Antonio | TX | US | San Antonio College's College Council unanimously recommended to "immediately stop using the name, symbol, logo, and image of the 'Ranger'", which College President Robert Vela immediately approved. | |||||
| Thorndike Hall | New York | NY | US | Board of Trustees of Teachers College, Columbia University voted unanimously to rename the hall. Psychologist Edward Thorndike was "a proponent of eugenics, and held racist, sexist, and antisemitic ideas". | |||||
| Robert E. Lee HS John Tyler HS | Tyler | TX | US | Tyler Independent School District Board of Trustees vote was unanimous. |
Geography
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| King Leopold Ranges | Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges | Kimberley | WA | AU | The Western Australian government sought to hasten the name change in response to the removal of Leopold II's statue in Antwerp. The new name is a combination of the names given to the ranges by the traditional owners, the Ngarinyin and Bunuba peoples. | ||||
| Place de l'Europe | Place de la liberté et de la dignité humaine | Dakar | DK | SN | On, the municipal council of Gorée Island unanimously voted to rename the square. The island itself is a symbol of the slave trade, and associations had demanded that the square be renamed as early as 2018. | ||||
| Sir John Hawkins Square | Jack Leslie Square | Plymouth | ENG | UK | Plymouth City Council announced that the square would be renamed due to John Hawkins's links to the slave trade. It will now commemorate the Plymouth Argyle footballer Jack Leslie, the only professional black player in England between 1921 and 1934. | ||||
16th Street Northwest | Black Lives Matter Plaza Northwest | Washington | DC | US | On Breonna Taylor's birthday, Mayor Muriel Bowser renamed two blocks of the street in front of the White House. | ||||
| Lynchview Park | Verdell Burdine Rutherford Park | Portland | OR | US | Portland Parks & Recreation and Mayor Ted Wheeler announced the change. Rutherford was a prominent local historian and civil rights leader. Centennial School District Superintendent Paul Oakley stated that there was no connection between lynching and the Lynch family, but the name caused "a disruption for some students". | ||||
| Livingston Park | Black Lives Matter Park | Albany | NY | US | The Common Council unanimously renamed the park in honor of Juneteenth. The Livingston family had imported and owned Antiguans and Jamaicans. | ||||
| Stapleton | Central Park | Denver | CO | US | The Stapleton Master Community Association voted to rename the Denver neighborhood named after former mayor and KKK member Benjamin F. Stapleton, for whom Denver's former airport, Stapleton International Airport, was also named. By, the community had narrowed down the new name to four options: Central Park, Concourse, Mosley, and Skyview. On, it was announced that the community had selected the name "Central Park". | ||||
| Broad Street | Black Lives Matter Boulevard | Salisbury | MD | US | City Administrator and Acting Mayor Julia Glanz stated that the inspiration came from the renaming of Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., and executing the idea was inexpensive and took about two weeks. | ||||
| Lake Maury | The Mariners' Lake | Newport News | VA | US | The Mariners' Museum Board of Trustees voted to rename the lake. Matthew Fontaine Maury was an oceanographer and Confederate officer. | ||||
| Main Street | Black Lives Matter Way | Hempstead | NY | US | During the renaming ceremony, Mayor Don Ryan stated that "until Black Lives Matter, the dream of the United States constitution falls short of its mark". | ||||
| Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery | Lexington | VA | US | Lexington City Council voted unanimously to change the name and requested suggestions from residents. Stonewall Jackson was buried there in 1863, and the cemetery named after him in 1949. | |||||
| Columbus Park | Trenton | NJ | US | Mayor stated that the park would be renamed, stating that "what we know about Columbus simply makes his image a poor fit for a city that is diverse as Trenton". A statue of Christopher Columbus was also removed from the park. | |||||
| Chapman Pond | Evans Pond | Tallahassee | FL | US | City Commission unanimously voted to change the name. Florida Chief Justice Roy H. Chapman "upheld segregationist policies". Dr. Charles Evans was president of the Tallahassee NAACP. | ||||
| Columbus Park | Buffalo | NY | US | Mayor and other city officials stated that the park would be renamed "with a name that better honors the contributions and sacrifices of Italian Americans". A statue of Christopher Columbus was also removed from the park. | |||||
| Lee Square | Florida Square | Pensacola | FL | US | Pensacola City Council voted 7–0 to revert the square's name back to Florida Square. The council also voted to remove a Confederate monument in the square. | ||||
| Robert E. Lee Road | Unison Road | Houston | TX | US | Harris County Commissioners unanimously voted to rename the road. | ||||
| Douglas Park | Douglass Park | Chicago | IL | US | Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners voted unanimously in an emergency meeting to rename the park, located in a 90% Black neighborhood. A 45-day public comment was required before the name change could be finalized. Stephen A. Douglas was "one of the country's most notorious slavery advocates". Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist born into slavery who ran a station on the Underground Railroad with his wife Anna Murray Douglass. |
Unofficial renamings
In a number of streets in Glasgow, Scotland, activists placed new name placards under the names of streets named after individuals with connections to the slave trade. Among these is Buchanan Street, named after Andrew Buchanan, who owned plantations in Virginia, which was "renamed" to George Floyd Street. In addition, street names in London with links to slavery are being reviewed.
Government
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| Mohrenstraße | Berlin | BE | DE | The Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe initially announced that the station would be renamed "Glinkastraße" after a street nearby, as "Mohr" is considered a racial slur. The proposed name was criticized as its namesake, the composer Mikhail Glinka, was anti-Semitic. A final decision on the name has yet to be made. | |||||
| Two Independence Square | Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters | Washington | DC | US | NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that its headquarters building will be renamed after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first female African American engineer. | ||||
| Lewis Cass Building | Elliott-Larsen Building | Lansing | MI | US | Renamed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer via executive order. Lewis Cass was a Michigan territorial governor who "owned a slave; defended a system to permit the expansion of slavery; and implemented a policy that forcibly removed Native Americans from their tribal lands". State Representatives Daisy Elliott and Melvin L. Larsen were primary sponsors of the bipartisan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. |
Industry
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| Bully Hayes Restaurant | Akaroa | CAN | NZ | – | The restaurant's owners announced that they would be renaming it due to William "Bully" Hayes's involvement in blackbirding in the Pacific during the late 19th century. | ||||
| Captain Cook Hotel | Dive | Dunedin | OTA | NZ | The owners announced that they would be changing the name in response both to Captain James Cook's controversial legacy among Māori and to the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by George Floyd's killing. | ||||
| Buchanan Wharf | Barclays Glasgow Campus | Glasgow | SCT | UK | Barclays Bank removed the name of the slave-owning Tobacco Lord Andrew Buchanan from its new property development after receiving a petition. | ||||
| Colston Tower | Bristol | ENG | UK | – | The tower was named after a street on which it stands, Colston Street, which in turn is named after the slave trader Edward Colston. A new name will be agreed on with the building's tenants. Colston Hall on the same street will be renamed by autumn 2020, but this has been planned since 2017. Also in Bristol, Colston's School and Colston's Girls' School will review their names. | ||||
| Apple Buchanan Street | Apple Glasgow | Glasgow | SCT | UK | Apple renamed its Glaswegian store due to Andrew Buchanan's connection to the slave trade as a tobacco plantation owner. | ||||
| Colston Arms | Ye olde Pubby Mcdrunkface | Bristol | ENG | UK | The pub was named after the coat of arms of slave trader Edward Colston. A new name will be agreed on with the pub's tenants. The name was deliberately chosen to start a discussion. | ||||
| Sambo's | Chad's | Santa Barbara | CA | US | Named for its founders Sam Battistone and Newell Bohnett in 1957. Formerly marketed using imagery from The Story of Little Black Sambo, which has negative connotations. Chad Stevens was the owner when the restaurant was renamed. | ||||
| Lady Antebellum | ' | Nashville | TN | US | June 11 | June 11 | US country music band changed its name due to its association with slavery. African American singer Anita White, who had been using the name professionally for over 20 years, was unhappy with the change, stating, "It's an opportunity for them to pretend they're not racist or pretend this means something to them. If it did, they would've done some research." On, the band filed a lawsuit against the singer. | ||
| Jefferson Area Builders | Charlottesville Area Builders | Albemarle County | VA | US | The company stated that Jefferson's history of slavery and the changed political climate led to the name change. | ||||
| Stonewall Jackson Hotel | Staunton | VA | US | June 16 | Hotel owner has announced that they plan to rename the hotel, but have not announced yet what that name will be. | ||||
| Calhoun Square | Minneapolis | MN | US | June 19 | Took its name from the former name of the nearby lake Bde Maka Ska, which was renamed in 2018 because of John C. Calhoun's support for slavery and Indian removal. | ||||
| George Preston Marshall Level | Bobby Mitchell Level | Landover | MD | US | The Washington Redskins renamed the lower level of FedExField to honor Bobby Mitchell, one of three African Americans who joined the team in 1962 when the team first integrated and was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Mitchell's number was also retired. Founding owner George Preston Marshall was against integration, and his team was the last NFL team to integrate. | ||||
| Dixie Chicks | ' | Dallas | TX | US | June 25 | June 25 | US country music band changed their name to "The Chicks". The word "Dixie" references the Mason–Dixon line, which divided the free Northern states from the slave Southern states; it is part of the culture of the American South. The name change followed criticism that the word had negative connotations of American slavery. | ||
| Splash Mountain | New Adventures with Princess Tiana | Bay Lake Anaheim | FL CA | US | June 25 | The Walt Disney Company announced that the Splash Mountain rides at Disneyland in California and Magic Kingdom in Florida will be renamed, with depictions from the controversial 1946 film Song of the South replaced with those from 2009's The Princess and the Frog, which introduced the first black Disney Princess. While the rebranding was planned for at least over a year, the public unveiling of the project was moved up earlier than when it was originally going to be announced. | |||
| Slaves | Sacramento | CA | US | June 25 | – | Bandmembers announced that their upcoming album To Better Days would be the last they would release under their current name. In a statement, they said "As obstinate supporters of the BLM Movement, we cannot continue to tie our music and our positive message to a word associated with such negative weight and hurt." | |||
| Dixie Brewing Company | New Orleans | LA | US | Owner Gayle Benson announced the plan to change the name and requested community input. | |||||
| Stonewall Jackson Inn | Harrisonburg | VA | US | June 26 | Owners had purchased the bed and breakfast in 2019 intending to change the name and are seeking donations to fund the name change. | ||||
| Gen. Jubal A. Early ' | Historic White's Ferry | Dickerson | MD | US | The owner also removed a Confederate monument on the ferry grounds. Jubal Early was "a Confederate general and white supremacist who spent his life promoting the 'Lost Cause' mythology". Elijah V. White, a Confederate colonel, had purchased the ferry after the Civil War. He named the ferry service "White's Ferry" after his family, and named the ferry itself after General Early. | ||||
| Washington Redskins | Washington Football Team | Landover | MD | US | Washington Redskins announced that their name and logo would be retired upon completion of "a thorough review of the name" that was first announced on. A group of investors worth $620 billion had written letters to Nike, FedEx and PepsiCo encouraging pressure on the Washington Redskins to change their name. On July 2, FedEx had asked the Redskins to change its name and Nike had removed Washington apparel from its website. On July 23, "Washington Football Team" was adopted as the club's temporary name until its replacement is selected. | ||||
| Crazy Horse Beer and Burgers | Lucky Horse Beer and Burgers | Des Moines | IA | US | Music-themed restaurant was named after Crazyhorse Guitars, formerly operating from that location, and Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse, but was renamed to avoid comparison to Lakota leader Crazy Horse and any appearance of disrespect. | ||||
| Dixie Regional Medical Center | Intermountain St. George Regional Hospital | St. George | UT | US | Dixie Regional Medical Center Governing Board announced the name change, effective. | ||||
| Edmonton Eskimos | Edmonton Football Team EE Football Team | Edmonton | AB | CA | On, The Sports Network reported that sources had stated that "an internal decision has been made" to change the name. On, the Edmonton Football Team announced that their Board of Directors decided to discontinue the use of the old name. Belairdirect, a longtime sponsor, had stated on that it would cut ties with the team if the name was not changed. | ||||
| ' | Louisville | KY | US | The American DJ announced the change to her stage name after a petition that said "a white woman calling herself 'black' is highly problematic". The original name was chosen as "a reflection of family’s lifelong and profound Catholic devotion to a specific kind of European icon of the Virgin Mary which is dark in hue". | |||||
| Carilion Stonewall Jackson Hospital | Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital | Lexington | VA | US | Carilion Clinic announced it had obtained full ownership of the hospital, and would rename the hospital "follow the naming convention it uses for all other facilities... to reflect the region it serves" once the "necessary regulations are met". | ||||
| Robert E. Lee Hotel Sheridan Livery Inn | Tonic | Lexington | VA | US | Both buildings are owned by the same family, who chose the names so that they could be referred to as "The Gin and Tonic". |
Products
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| Baker Josef's Trader Giotto's Trader Joe San Trader José's Trader Ming's | Trader Joe's | United States | In 2019, Trader Joe's stated that labels using such variations of the "Trader Joe's" name were being eliminated, and that "these designations do not appear on any new products we have introduced in the past two years". Many of the labels remained during the George Floyd protests, prompting a petition to rename the items, and another statement from Trader Joe's mentioning again that they were being eliminated, and being noncommittal about when the change would be completed. | ||||
| Aunt Jemima | United States | June 17 | The breakfast foods company announced it was changing its name and imaging, noting that it is "based on a racial stereotype." | ||||
| Eskimo Pie | United States | June 19 | Eskimo pies were the brand name of a vanilla ice cream product dipped in chocolate. "Eskimo" has been criticized as a racist name for Arctic indigenous peoples such as the Inuit and Yupik. | ||||
| Beso de Negra | Colombia | Nestlé announced that it would rename the chocolate-coated marshmallow treat and remove the image used on its packaging. Beso de negra means "kiss from a black woman". The packaging used an image of a black woman with bare shoulders and a colorful dress. | |||||
| Darlie | China | June 19 | Colgate-Palmolive stated, "We are currently working... to review and further evolve all aspects of the brand, including the brand name." | ||||
| Redskins Chicos | Australia | June 23 | Being renamed by Nestlé. "Redskins" and "Chicos" have been interpreted as derogatory terms for Native Americans and Latin Americans, respectively. | ||||
| Fair & Lovely | Glow & Lovely Glow & Handsome | India | June 25 | Unilever announced that it would rename its skin-lightening cream and remove references to lightening and whitening. The new names "Glow & Lovely" and "Glow & Handsome" were announced, with the latter for the men's version of the brand. Emami threatened legal action, as it had renamed its own brand "Fair and Handsome" to "Glow and Handsome" the previous week. | |||
| Eskimo | O'Payo | Denmark | announced the name change, made "in case it offended Inuit and other Arctic people". The term "Eskimo" has "a pejorative meaning for many Greenlanders". O'Payo is the name of the Nicaraguan cocoa beans from which the chocolate covering the ice cream is made. | ||||
| Coon | Australia | While its owners maintain that Coon cheese was named after cheese maker Edward William Coon, "coon" is a derogatory term for Indigenous Australians. |
- Planned Parenthood will remove the name of Margaret Sanger from its Manhattan Clinic because of support for eugenics. Karen Seltzer, the chair of Planned Parenthood of Greater New York cited Sanger's "racist legacy" as a reason for the removal. Defenders, including historian Linda Gordon, claim that Sanger was "no more racist than many progressives of her time."
Terminology
| Old | New | Group | Details | Rf. | ||
| slaves | dm-deps | OpenZFS | Developer Matt Ahrens, co-creator of ZFS, updated the code to "emove unnecessary references to slavery". The abbreviation "dm" stands for "device-mapper" and "deps" for "dependents". | |||
| master | main | GitHub | GitHub CEO Nat Friedman announced they were working on the change. Developer Petr Baudiš, self-described "clueless Central European youngster whose command of English was mostly illusory", stated that he chose the term to "express 'this is where you cloned this repo from'", as in "master recording". | |||
| master | master sommelier | Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas | Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas issued a statement "in solidarity with the Black community" that implied collaboration with Hue Society, without the knowledge of Hue Society Founder Tahiirah Habibi. Habibi then posted a video denying any collaboration and explaining her experiences with CMS-A, including seeing her dream to become "the first black woman to attain status" be shattered after her CMS-A testing experience, which included the requirement that master sommeliers be addressed as "master". | |||
| master bedroom master bathroom | primary bedroom primary bathroom | Houston Association of Realtors | Change was made on its property listing database, but "did not constitute a ban on the use of the word 'master'", which can still be used on marketing materials. | |||
| master bedroom master bathroom | main bedroom main bathroom | GetBurbed | GetBurbed is a real estate brokerage firm in Chicago. | |||
| master slave blacklist whitelist | source replica blocklist allowlist | MySQL | Product manager Kenny Gryp announced that the change was being implemented and would be reflected in future releases. | |||
| master slave blacklist whitelist | various | Linux | Principal engineer Linus Torvalds added to the coding style documentation a recommendation to "avoid introducing new usage" of such terminology. The policy is in effect immediately. |
Other name changes
Decision pending
| Image | Old | New | Location | Details | |||
| various | Lagos | LA | NG | The Lagos State House of Assembly unanimously passed a motion to call on Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu "to direct the Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture to liaise with the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice to look at the Listed Sites Law, 2015" with the intention of removing references of colonialism and the slave trade. Floyd's killing and the removal of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol were explicitly referenced. | |||
| Hibbert Street | Luton | ENG | UK | Luton Borough Council decided to change the name of a street named after Robert Hibbert, a wealthy slave owner who "set up 12 cottages in Castle Street as a charity for poor widows" that were later replaced by almshouses on the street that bears his name. Consultation with the street's residents, required by local law, has been planned to start in the coming weeks. | |||
| Tillman Hall | Old Main | Clemson | SC | US | Clemson University Board of Trustees decided to rename one of their buildings. "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman was a "governor and white supremacist" who "used virulent racism to dominate South Carolina politics". The Heritage Act requires two-thirds approval from South Carolina General Assembly to rename the building. | ||
| J. Marion Sims | Columbia | SC | US | President of University of South Carolina endorsed a resolution to rename J. Marion Sims residence hall. Sims "performed hundreds of medical experimentations on enslaved African American women". Board of Trustees approved unanimously. The Heritage Act requires two-thirds approval from South Carolina General Assembly to rename the building. | |||
| Robert E. Lee Road | Buffalo Soldier Road | El Paso | TX | US | City Council voted unanimously for the change. Must be reviewed by Development Coordinating Committee and approved by City Plan Commission before returning to City Council for another approval. Buffalo Soldiers were "the first Black professional soldiers to serve during peacetime". | ||
| John C. Calhoun Drive | Orangeburg | SC | US | Orangeburg City Council voted unanimously to rename the road. The Heritage Act requires two-thirds approval from South Carolina General Assembly to rename the road. | |||
| Cleveland Indians | Cleveland | OH | US | The team announced that they would be reviewing their name to "embrace responsibility to advance social justice and equality." | |||
| Jordan Hall Jordan River Jordan Avenue Jordan David Starr Jordan Prize possibly others | Bloomington | IN | US | The president of Indiana University formed a committee to review sites and awards named for David Starr Jordan, a former university president and prominent supporter of eugenics. The committee was also tasked with reviewing "all buildings on the nine campuses and remov names of anyone whose statements and writings are judged unworthy of the recognition". | |||
| Clarence Cook Little Hall | Orono | ME | US | The president of the University of Maine announced on June 29 that he would request that the University of Maine System Board of Trustees remove the name of C. C. Little, the founder of the American Eugenics Society, from a lecture hall. | |||
| Washington and Lee University | Lexington | VA | US | Rector of the Board of Trustees reported that "a committee of the board would embark on a review of the symbols and name of the university". Faculty had formally requested the trustees to remove Lee's name the previous day, and student government had requested the change the previous week. | |||
| Aycock Residence Hall Carr Building Josephus Daniels Building Ruffin Residence Hall | Chapel Hill | NC | US | Influenced by the George Floyd protests, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees lifted a ban on renaming buildings on June 17. On, the university's Commission on History, Race and A Way Forward recommended the renaming of four buildings named for white supremacists to the Chancellor. The five men the buildings were named after had "used their positions to impose and maintain violent systems of racial subjugation". On, the Board of Trustees approved a policy regarding the removal of names from buildings. | |||
| Confederate names on property under of Defense | US | US Senate and House have both passed, with veto-proof majorities, amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 that would require the removal of Confederate names from military bases. Negotiations between the two houses to reach a final version of the bill is expected to take months. There are at least twelve US Army bases named after Confederate soldiers. The guided-missile cruiser is named after a Confederate victory. President Donald Trump had threatened to veto the bill. | |||||
| Columbus Park | Piazza Italia Park | San Antonio | TX | US | San Antonio's City Council was scheduled to vote on the renaming on. A statue of Columbus was removed from the park on after it was vandalized. |
Public pressure
Canada
- Ontario: Over 10,000 people have signed a petition calling the city of Toronto to rename Dundas Street, named after Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, "due to involvement in opposing the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in the 18th century". Dundas had "made himself the champion of 'gradual' abolition of the slave trade", and placed himself in the support to those who wanted the slave trade abolished immediately. On, Mayor John Tory stated that a working group would be formed "to examine the issue of renaming streets in a broader sense". The petition to rename Dundas Street in Toronto also led to public pressure to rename the community of Dundas in Hamilton southwest of Toronto, and another petition to rename Winston Churchill Boulevard and its bus station in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga to the southwest.
Sudan
- Khartoum: Activists have called for the renaming of Zubeir Pasha Street, named after 19th century slave trader Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur.
Uganda
- Kampala: Over 5000 Ugandans have signed a petition calling the government to remove the names of British colonial figures from the streets of Kampala and landmarks of Uganda. The petition was addressed to President Yoweri Museveni and Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, and was presented to Kadaga by noted lawyer Apollo Makubuya, former Principal Judge James Ogoola, and Member of Parliament Medard Segona. Streets under consideration include Speke Road, named after explorer John Hanning Speke, and Colville Street, named after Major-General Henry Colville. Landmarks under consideration include Lake Victoria, named after Queen Victoria. The petitioners described the British colonial figures as people "who were notorious in their inhumane and degrading treatment of the colonized peoples in the Uganda Protectorate".
United States
- California:
- * A petition to rename Andrew Jackson Post Office in Rolando, San Diego received over 300 signatures in four days.
- * Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe announced that removing the slur in its name would be a "lengthy and expensive process" but that it is actively taking an inventory to find out how much it would cost pending a final decision in the future.
- Connecticut: Calls to rename Yale University, named for Elihu Yale, a slave trader.
- Florida: Calls to rename Doak Campbell Stadium at Florida State University, named for Doak S. Campbell, the university's first president, who was pro-segregation.
- Louisiana: Petitions were created to rename Jefferson Davis Parkway to Norman C. Francis Parkway and to rename Robert E. Lee Boulevard to Leah Chase Boulevard. Both roads are located in New Orleans, and both petitions were created by the Vice Chairman of New Orleans' Regional Transit Authority.
- Massachusetts:
- * Calls to rename Mather House, a residence at Harvard University, named for Increase Mather, Harvard president and a slave owner.
- * Renewed calls to rename Faneuil Hall, which is named after Peter Faneuil, a merchant and slave trader
- Utah: Calls to rename Brigham Young University and to remove a statue of Brigham Young.
- Professional sports: In addition to the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians, teams criticized as exploiting Native American stereotypes and offensive images include the Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves, and Chicago Blackhawks.