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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts) Wed Jul 8, 2015, 11:01 PM Jul 2015

California bill bars naming public places after Confederates

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO — A bill banning the naming of schools and roads after notable Confederates has been introduced to the California Legislature.

Democratic Sen. Steve Glazer of Orinda introduced SB539 to bar state and local properties from taking the names of elected leaders or senior military officers of the Confederacy. Public places currently named after Confederate officials would need to choose a new namesake.

Glazer's office said Wednesday that the bill was spurred by a national debate over whether public buildings should fly the Confederate flag following the massacre of nine black churchgoers during Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina.

Two schools in Southern California are currently named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. California also has a Jefferson Davis Highway, named to commemorate the president of the Confederacy ...

http://napavalleyregister.com/ap/state/california-bill-bars-naming-public-places-after-confederates/article_0df45116-a418-569a-b1ac-e1a8c1b66d77.html

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California bill bars naming public places after Confederates (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP

That Robert E. Lee school is in Long Beach--in an area with a large African American population. SunSeeker Jul 2015 #1

... Last September, the school board changed an elementary school named after Peter H. Burnett, struggle4progress Jul 2015 #3

So Jackson Street in San Jose is out? KamaAina Jul 2015 #2

How about Ft. Bragg, Ca. along the liberal No.California coast. demosincebirth Jul 2015 #4

It was named before the war Lordquinton Jul 2015 #5

SunSeeker

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1. That Robert E. Lee school is in Long Beach--in an area with a large African American population.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Jul 8, 2015, 11:16 PM

Jul 2015

Unfuckingbelievable.

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)

3. ... Last September, the school board changed an elementary school named after Peter H. Burnett,

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 12:08 AM

Jul 2015

the first civilian governor of California ... Before his arrival in California, Burnett served on the 1844 Legislative Committee of Oregon. While there he proposed that former black slaves be forced to leave that state, with any who failed to leave subject to arrests and lashings. That provision was known as “Peter Burnett’s lash law.” Voters later rescinded the law in 1845. A year after moving to California, Burnett was elected as the first governor of the state in December 1849. During his inaugural address he endorsed a similar black exclusion law. Burnett received heavy criticism for the speech and became unpopular with the state’s legislature. After just a little over a year in office, he resigned ...
Civil rights group to petition renaming of Robert E. Lee Elementary in Long Beach
By RUBEN VIVES
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