List of name changes due to the George Floyd protests

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After George Floyd, an unarmed African American man, was murdered during a police arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, many people protested in the United States and internationally. During the course of these protests, many monuments and memorials were vandalized or toppled by protestors, prompting those people who were in charge of other similar monuments to remove them from public view. Similarly, many names, mascots, and other forms of symbolism were changed under direct or indirect public pressure. In other countries, race-related and colonial issues were also raised, and some of them were acted upon. In some cases, changes were already being planned or they had already been under consideration before the outbreak of the protests.

Color code:

  Reported but not yet executed

  Decision pending

  Proposed change supported by one or more officials

  Change partially or fully reversed

Abbreviations used:

ES: Elementary school

HS: High school

MS: Middle school

TBD: To be determined

Education[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	Pacific Beach Joint-Use Field	Fannie and William Payne Joint-Use Field	San Diego	CA	US		Mar 9, 2021	In 1945, over 1900 Pacific Beach residents petitioned to remove Pacific Beach Middle School's first black teacher from the staff because they didn't think a black teacher deserved to be there. In 2021, a joint-use field at Pacific Beach Middle school was named after Payne and his wife after a petition was circulated in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement the previous summer.	[1]
	Serra High School	Canyon Hills High School				Jun 25, 2020	Mar 9, 2021	In June 2020, two sisters, both students at Serra High School, started a petition to change the school's namesake Father Juniper Serra and the school mascot away from the Conquistadors. The San Diego Unified School Board would go on to unanimously approve the renaming of the school to Canyon Hills in March 2021.	[2][3][4][1]
	Kroeber Hall	Names removed	Berkeley	CA		Jul 2020	Jan 27, 2021	UC Berkeley denamed a building named for Alfred Kroeber, the "founder of the study of anthropology in the American West." Reasons given are the collection of Native American remains for curation and taking custody of a Native American genocide survivor who "performed as a living exhibit for museum visitors."	[5][6]
	LeConte Hall						Nov 18, 2020	UC Berkeley faculty members John and Joseph LaConte were veteran confederate soldiers who used scientific language to promote racist ideas.	[7]
	Barrows Hall							UC Berkeley faculty member David Prescott Barrows was an anthropologist and colonizer of the Philippine education system who professed that the white race was superior to all others.
	P. G. T. Beauregard Hall Leonidas K. Polk Hall	College of Science and Technology College of Education and Behavioral Sciences	Thibodaux	LA		Jun 3, 2020	Jun 3, 2020	Nicholls State University president announced the renaming of two buildings on campus named for people associated with the Confederacy who had no relationship to the university.	[8]
	Gladstone Hall	TBD	Liverpool	Eng	UK	Jun 9, 2020	—	The University of Liverpool announced that it will rename this hall of residence, named after the prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, for "his views on slavery".	[9]
	Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design	School of Art, Architecture and Design	London	Eng	UK	Jun 10, 2020	Jun 10, 2020	London Metropolitan University announced that the school's name would no longer refer to Sir John Cass for his links to the slave trade.	[10]
	Jefferson ES Washington ES	Ruth Acty ES TBD	Berkeley	CA	US	Jun 10, 2020	Dec 9, 2020 TBD	Berkeley Unified School District school board unanimously voted to rename the two elementary schools because of Jefferson's and Washington's ownership of slaves. Jefferson ES was renamed after Ruth Acty, the first teacher of color in Berkeley Unified School District, who dedicated nearly 50 years of her life to teaching.	[11] [12] [13]
	Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs	The Center for International and Public Affairs (temporarily)	Los Angeles	CA	US	Jun 11, 2020	Jun 11, 2020	A University of Southern California (USC) committee[a] 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.	[15] [14]
	Durham Hall	Academic Center (temporarily)	Buena Vista	VA	US	Jun 11, 2020	Jun 11, 2020	Southern Virginia University (SVU) renamed their primary academic building.[b] Robert Lee Durham was a white supremacist who was a co-owner and former president of Southern Seminary, a predecessor of SVU.[c] His advocacy of white supremacy was "explicit, public, [and] proactive".[d]	[16] [17] [18]
	Schott Building Schottzie Stadium	TBD	Cincinnati	OH	US	Jun 11, 2020		The Saint Ursula Academy Leadership Team decided to rename two of its facilities because of Marge Schott's "record of racism and bigotry." Schottzie was Schott's dog.	[19] [20] [21] [22]
	Calhoun Honors College	Clemson University Honors College	Clemson	SC	US	Jun 12, 2020	Jun 12, 2020	Clemson University removed the name of its founder John C. Calhoun from its honors college, for his pro-slavery views and his ownership of slaves.	[23]
	Intramural Center	William Leon Garrett Fieldhouse[e]	Bloomington	IN	US	Jun 12, 2020	Jun 12, 2020	Indiana University Board of Trustees approved the renaming.[f] 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".	[26] [27] [24] [25]
	Sir John Cass's Foundation	The Portal Trust	London	Eng	UK	Jun 16, 2020	—	The foundation issued a statement announcing its commitment to a change of name.	[28]
	Sir John Cass Redcoat School	Stepney All Saints School	London	Eng	UK	Jun 16, 2020	c. Aug 19, 2020	The school's governing body voted unanimously on June 16 for a change of name.	[29] [30]
	Louis E. Plummer Auditorium	TBD	Fullerton	CA	US	Jun 16, 2020		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.	[31] [32]
	J. J. Finley ES	Carolyn Beatrice Parker ES	Gainesville	FL	US	Jun 16, 2020	Aug 18, 2020	School Board of Alachua County voted unanimously for the name change. Jesse J. Finley was a Confederate brigadier general. On Aug 18, 2020, the board unanimously voted to rename the school after Carolyn Beatrice Parker, effective immediately. Parker was "the first African American woman in the U.S. to receive a graduate degree in physics", and worked on the Manhattan Project.	[33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39]
	Joseph Finegan ES Stonewall Jackson ES Jefferson Davis MS Kirby-Smith MS J.E.B. Stuart MS Robert E. Lee HS	TBD	Jacksonville	FL	US	Jun 16, 2020	—	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.	[33] [40]
	Daniels MS	Oberlin MS	Raleigh	NC	US	Jun 16, 2020	Jun 16, 2020	Josephus Daniels was a newspaper founder and planner of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898 in which the biracial city government of Wilmington was overthrown by white supremacists. The school is located on Oberlin Road.	[41]
	Woodrow Wilson HS	TBD	Camden	NJ	US	Jun 16, 2020		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".	[42] [43]
	Walpole HS Rebels	TBD	Walpole	MA	US	Jun 18, 2020		Walpole School Committee voted unanimously to change the school's mascot. 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.	[44]
	Lee Magnet HS	Liberty Magnet HS	Baton Rouge	LA	US	Jun 18, 2020	Aug 3, 2020	East Baton Rouge school board voted to change the name. School was formerly named Robert E. Lee HS and then Lee Magnet HS.	[45] [46] [47] [48] [49]
	Galton Lecture Theatre Pearson Lecture Theatre Pearson Building	Lecture Theatre 115 Lecture Theatre G22 North-West Wing	London	Eng	UK	Jun 19, 2020	Jun 19, 2020	University College London announced the renaming of two lecture theatres and a building named after eugenicists Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, effective immediately.	[50] [51]
	Woodrow Wilson Hall	Great Hall at Shadow Lawn	West Long Branch	NJ	US	Jun 19, 2020	Jun 19, 2020	Monmouth University's Board of Trustees unanimously voted to rename the building, after voting to keep it in 2016.	[52] [53]
	Philip J. Schuyler Achievement Academy	TBD	Albany	NY	US	Jun 19, 2020	—	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.[g] Philip Schuyler was "the largest slave owner in late-1700s Albany County". The committee was formed on Jun 29, 2020, and would be creating the policy over the summer.	[55] [54] [56]
	Stonewall Jackson HS Stonewall MS	Unity Reed HS Unity Braxton MS	Manassas	VA	US	Jun 22, 2020	Jun 30, 2020	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".	[57] [58] [59] [60]
	Christopher Columbus Family Academy	TBD	New Haven	CT	US	Jun 22, 2020	—	New Haven School Board decided to rename the school, "due to [Columbus'] history of violence toward indigenous people."	[61] [62]
	Robert E. Lee HS	John R. Lewis HS	Springfield	VA	US	Jun 23, 2020	Jul 23, 2020	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.[h]	[67] [68] [69] [63] [64] [65] [66]
	Zebulon B. Vance HS	Julius L. Chambers HS	Charlotte	NC	US	Jun 23, 2020	Oct 13, 2020	In June, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board started the process to rename Zebulon B. Vance HS, named after Confederate military officer Zebulon Baird Vance. In October, the board unanimously voted to rename the school in honor of the civil rights icon Julius L. Chambers, whose legal work led to the desegregation of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in the 1970s.	[70] [71]
	Marge Schott Stadium Marge Schott Seminar Room	TBD	Cincinnati	OH	US	Jun 23, 2020		University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees voted unanimously to rename a stadium and a library seminar room, named after Marge Schott, who made racist remarks in support of Adolf Hitler.[i]	[75] [76]
	Deady Hall	University Hall (temporarily)	Eugene	OR	US	Jun 24, 2020	Jun 24, 2020	University of Oregon Board of Trustees unanimously voted to remove Deady's name from the hall.[j] 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.[k]	[78] [79] [77] [80]
	Civil War (college rivalry)	None		OR	US	Jun 26, 2020	Jun 26, 2020	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.	[81] [82]
	Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Wilson College	Princeton School of Public and International Affairs First College	Princeton	NJ	US	Jun 26, 2020	Jun 27, 2020	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 combatting 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.	[83] [84] [85]
	Hoey Hall Hall	TBD	Boone	NC	US	Jun 26, 2020		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. Clyde R. Hoey was a governor of North Carolina who was a segregationist and white supremacist. 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".	[86] [87] [88] [89] [90]
	Hoey Auditorium	University Auditorium	Cullowhee	NC	US	Jun 29, 2020	Jun 29, 2020	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".	[91] [92] [93]
	Watson School of Biological Sciences	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences	Cold Spring Harbor	NY	US	Jul 1, 2020	Jul 1, 2020	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Board of Trustees voted to restore the original name of its graduate school because of James Watson's views on race.	[94]
	Burwell Hall	Queens Hall	Charlotte	NC	US	Jul 2, 2020	Jul 2, 2020	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.	[95]
	Helms Center	Hawks Athletic Center	Murfreesboro	NC	US	Jul 2, 2020	Jul 2, 2020	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".	[96] [97][98][99][100]
	Guy T. Gillespie Hall	Lakeview Hall	Jackson	MS	US	Jul 3, 2020	Jul 3, 2020	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.	[101] [102]
	Cass Business School	City's Business School[l] (temporarily)	London	Eng	UK	Jul 6, 2020	Jul 6, 2020	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"[l] until a consultation concluded a new name.	[103]
	Copeia (journal)	Ichthyology and Herpetology	n/a	n/a	US	Jul 6, 2020	—	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.	[104] [105]
	Linnean Games (quiz bowl)	Entomology Games	n/a	n/a	US	Jul 6, 2020	Jul 6, 2020	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".[m]	[106]
	Stonewall Jackson MS	West Side MS	Charleston	WV	US	Jul 6, 2020	Jul 7, 2020[n]	Kanawha County Board of Education unanimously voted to change the name.[o] Removal of signage began the next day, and was completed a day later. Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was from West Virginia.[p]	[111] [110] [107] [109] [108]
	Jenkins Hall	Education Building (temporarily)	Huntington	WV	US	Jul 7, 2020	Jul 7, 2020	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.[q]	[113] [112]
	Ashby Hall Jackson Hall Maury Hall	Valley Hall Justice Studies Hall Mountain Hall (all temporarily)	Harrisonburg	VA	US	Jul 7, 2020	Jul 7, 2020	James Madison University Board of Visitors voted unanimously to change the names of buildings named for Confederate officers Turner Ashby, Stonewall Jackson, and Matthew Fontaine Maury.	[114] [115] [116] [117] [118]
	Fanning Academy of Science and Technology	Falcon Academy of Science and Technology	Brea	CA	US	Jul 7, 2020	Jul 7, 2020	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 Jul 2, 2020 requesting the name be removed.[r] William E. Fanning may have been a KKK member.[s] The falcon is the school's mascot.	[120] [123] [124] [122] [121] [125] [119]
	Parkwood HS Rebels	TBD	Monroe	NC	US	Jul 7, 2020	—	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.	[126] [127]
	Joe Jamail Field Robert L. Moore Building	TBD[t] Physics, Math and Astronomy Building	Austin	TX	US	Jul 13, 2020	—	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,[u] was "hostil[e] toward the black community", and was "obsess[ed] with claims of intellectual differences among the races". Joe Jamail was a rich alumnus who made large donations to the university.[v] Jamail's family requested the name change "to be more inclusive and promote diversity".	[131] [128] [132] [133] [129] [134] [130]
	Robert E. Lee ES	Delmas Morton ES	Grand Prairie	TX	US	Jul 14, 2020	—	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.	[135] [136] [137] [138]
	Lee-Davis HS Stonewall Jackson MS	Mechanicsville HS Bell Creek MS	Mechanicsville	VA	US	Jul 14, 2020	—	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.	[139] [140]
	Jefferson Davis HS Robert E. Lee HS Sidney Lanier HS	TBD	Montgomery	AL	US	Jul 14, 2020	—	Montgomery County Board of Education voted to rename the schools.[w] Sidney Lanier was a Confederate private who became a prestigious poet.[x] If a waiver to the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act is not granted, a fine of $25,000 may be imposed per renaming.[y] A petition to rename the schools had amassed nearly 30,000 signatures.	[142] [141]
	Oñate HS	TBD[z]	Las Cruces	NM	US	Jul 14, 2020	—	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.	[143] [144]
	Wilson HS	Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School	Portland	OR	US	Jul 14, 2020	—	Portland Public Schools Board of Education decided to rename the school.[aa] 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.	[145] [146] [147]
	San Antonio College Rangers	TBD	San Antonio	TX	US	Jul 14, 2020	Jul 14, 2020	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.[ab]	[148] [149]
	Thorndike Hall	TBD	New York	NY	US	Jul 15, 2020	—	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".	[150] [151]
	Robert E. Lee HS John Tyler HS	TBD	Tyler	TX	US	Jul 16, 2020	—	Tyler Independent School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to change the schools' names. John Tyler was President of the United States from 1841 to 45, but joined the Confederacy after the start of the Civil War.	[152] [153]
	Sir John Cass's Foundation Primary School	The Aldgate School	London	Eng	UK	c. Sep 2, 2020	c. Sep 2, 2020	The Cass Child and Family Centre, which runs a reception class alongside a nursery and children's centre at the school, will also be renamed, as the City of London Child and Family Centre.	[154] [155]
	Vaughan Secondary School	Hodan Nalayeh Secondary School Secondary School (temporarily)	Vaughan	ON	Canada	Sep 16, 2020	c. Mar 2, 2021	Vaughan Secondary School was a high school that was named after the city it is in, Vaughan, Ontario. It was revealed that Benjamin Vaughan, which the city was named after, was a slave owner. After consultations, the school was controversially renamed after Hodan Nalayeh, a Somali-Canadian journalist.	[156] [157]
	David Hume Tower	40 George Square (temporarily)	Edinburgh	Sct	UK	Sep 10, 2020	Beginning of 2020–2021 academic year	Hume was involved in the slave trade and wrote in his essay "Of National Characters" (1753) that "negros" are "naturally inferior to the whites". The building is the tallest on the University of Edinburgh's campus.	[158] [159]
	Nott Hall Morgan Hall	Honors Building The English Building (temporary)	Tuscaloosa	AL	US	Aug 5, 2020 Sep 17, 2020	Aug 5, 2020 Sep 17, 2020	University of Alabama trustees unanimously voted to rename both halls. Morgan Hall, which contains the school's English department, was named after John Tyler Morgan, a former United States Senator. Morgan maintained ties with the Ku Klux Klan, called the abolition of slavery a mistake, and promoted Jim Crow laws. Nott Hall was named after Josiah C. Nott, a scientist, slave owner, and advocate for slavery.	[160] [161] [162]
	Stonewall Jackson MS	Roberto Clemente MS	Orlando	FL	US	Sep 22, 2020	Sep 22, 2020	The middle school, which was formerly restricted to white students, was renamed after Roberto Clemente, a Major League baseball player and humanitarian.	[163] [164]
	Clive House	Owen House	Newport, Shropshire	Eng	UK	Oct 13, 2020	Sep 2021	The house in Adams' Grammar School, named after Robert Clive, will be renamed after Wilfred Owen.	[165]
	Sir John A. Macdonald Hall	TBD	Kingston	ON	CA	Oct 19, 2020	Oct 19, 2020	Queen's University announced that it would be changing the name of its law school building, named after the prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald, for his participation in establishing Canada's residential school system and for instituting a head tax on Chinese immigrants.	[166] [167]
	Colston's Girls' School	Montpelier High School	Bristol	Eng	UK	Nov 6, 2020	Sep 1, 2021	A previous attempt to rename the school in 2017 was unsuccessful. The new name was decided in a vote by staff and students. Edward Colston was an English merchant and slave trader. Colston's School, a different school in Bristol, is also reconsidering its name.	[168] [169]
	Codrington Library	The Library at All Souls College	Oxford	Eng	UK	Nov 20, 2020		The library was founded with a bequest from Christopher Codrington, whose wealth derived from slave plantations in the West Indies.	[170]
	Dixie State University	Utah Polytechnic State University/Utah Tech	Saint George	UT	US	Dec 12, 2020	—	In December 2020, the university's board of trustees voted to remove the word "Dixie" from its name. The 2021 Utah State Legislature voted to consider a name change, and the committee created by that bill chose Utah Polytechnic State University with the intended common use of Utah Tech for branding and athletics. That name will still have to clear the University Board of Trustees and State Board of Regents, before ultimately being decided in the 2022 session of the Utah legislature.[171]	[172]
	Clive House	Raphael House	Sandy Lodge, Hertfordshire	Eng	UK	Jan 9, 2021		The house at Merchant Taylors' School, named after Robert Clive, was renamed after John Raphael. Both were former pupils of the school.	[173]
	Sir Francis Drake High School	Archie Williams High School	San Anselmo	CA	US	Jun 1, 2020	May 11, 2021	Sir Francis Drake High School was renamed to Archie Williams High School after former teacher and Olympic athlete Archie Williams, after awareness grew of Francis Drake's involvement with the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and piracy, along with his symbolic connection to the racist ideology of Anglo-Saxonism.	[174][175][176][177][178]
	Woodrow Wilson School	Harmony Grove Elementary School - A Global Academy	Framingham	MA	US	Jul 14, 2020	May 19, 2021	Renamed due to Wilson's segregationalist policies and racist foreign policies. New name honors a local park with a natural ampitheatre that was used by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and an 1874 women's suffrage convention.	[179][180]

Geography[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	Henry Clay Park	Zitkala-Ša Park	Arlington	VA	US	Dec 8, 2020	Dec 12, 2020	The Lyon Park Citizen's Association proposed the change to the Parks and Recreation Commission in the summer of 2020. The move received unanimous support from the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board and majority support from the Neighborhood Conservation Advisory Committee. Secretary of State Henry Clay held abolitionist views but kept slaves. Zitkala-Ša was an Native American writer, musician, educator and activist who lived in Arlington and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.	[181][182]
	(section of) 16th Street Northwest	Black Lives Matter Plaza Northwest	Washington	DC	US	Jun 5, 2020	Jun 5, 2020	On Breonna Taylor's birthday, Mayor Muriel Bowser renamed two blocks of the street in front of the White House.	[183] [184]
	Sir John Hawkins Square	Jack Leslie Square	Plymouth	Eng	UK	Jun 9, 2020		Plymouth City Council announced that the square would be renamed because of 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.	[185] [186] [187]
	Lynchview Park	Verdell Burdine Rutherford Park	Portland	OR	US	Jun 9, 2020	Jun 9, 2020	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".	[188] [189]
	State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations	State of Rhode Island	n/a	RI	US	Jun 12, 2020	Nov 3, 2020	An executive order by Gov. Gina Raimondo removed "and Providence Plantations" from official state documents and symbols. Leading legislators of the General Assembly then removed the phrase from internal legislative documents. Rhode Island voters approved the name change in a referendum on November 3, 2020. The same question had previously failed 78% to 22% in 2010. Though Providence Plantations did not utilize slaves, petitioners argued the word has connotations of Southern slave plantations, and that Rhode Island merchants historically played a large role in the transatlantic slave trade.	[190] [191] [192] [193]
	King Leopold Ranges	Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges	Kimberley	WA	Au	Jun 12, 2020	Jul 1, 2020	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.	[194] [195] [196]
	Livingston Park	Black Lives Matter Park	Albany	NY	US	Jun 16, 2020	Jun 16, 2020	The Common Council unanimously renamed the park in honor of Juneteenth. The Livingston family was a prominent family in New York but owned Antiguan and Jamaican slaves.	[197] [198]
	Stapleton	Central Park	Denver	CO	US	Jul 17, 2020	Aug 1, 2020	The Stapleton Master Community Association voted to rename the Denver neighborhood[ac] named after former mayor and KKK member Benjamin F. Stapleton, for whom Denver's former airport, Stapleton International Airport, was also named. By Jul 20, 2020, the community had narrowed down the new name to four options: Central Park, Concourse, Mosley, and Skyview. On Aug 1, 2020, it was announced that the community had selected the name "Central Park".	[200] [199] [201] [202] [203]
	Broad Street	Black Lives Matter Boulevard	Salisbury	MD	US	Jun 19, 2020	Jun 19, 2020	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.	[204] [205] [206]
	Lake Maury	The Mariners' Lake	Newport News	VA	US	Jun 19, 2020	Jun 19, 2020	The Mariners' Museum Board of Trustees voted to rename the lake. Matthew Fontaine Maury was an oceanographer and Confederate officer.	[207] [208]
	Main Street	Black Lives Matter Way	Hempstead	NY	US	Jun 25, 2020	Jun 25, 2020	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".	[209] [210] [211]
	Place de l'Europe	Place de la liberté et de la dignité humaine[ad]	Dakar	Dk	Sn	Jun 28, 2020		On Jun 27, 2020, 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.	[213] [214] [212] [215]
	Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery	Oak Grove Cemetery	Lexington	VA	US	Jul 3, 2020	—	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. On Aug 20, 2020, the council unanimously voted to change the name to "Oak Grove Cemetery", subject to a public hearing on September 3, 2020.	[216] [217] [218] [219] [220]
	Columbus Park	TBD	Trenton	NJ	US	Jul 7, 2020	—	Mayor stated that the park would be renamed, stating that "what we know about Christopher 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.	[221] [222]
	Chapman Pond	Evans Pond	Tallahassee	FL	US	Jul 8, 2020		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.	[223] [224] [225] [226]
	Jeff Davis Peak	Da-ek Dow Go-et Mountain	Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest	CA	US	Jul 9, 2020	Jul 9, 2020	The mountain was previously named after Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who had no known connections with the state of California. The new name is derived from the Washoe language and roughly translates to “saddle between points."	[227]
	Columbus Park	TBD	Buffalo	NY	US	Jul 10, 2020	—	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.	[228] [229]
	Lee Square	Florida Square	Pensacola	FL	US	Jul 14, 2020	Jul 14, 2020	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.	[230] [231] [232]
	Robert E. Lee Road	Unison Road	Houston	TX	US	Jul 14, 2020	Jul 14, 2020	Harris County Commissioners unanimously voted to rename the road.	[233] [234]
	Jackson Park	Chochenyo Park	Alameda	CA	US	Jul 21, 2020	Jan 21, 2021	Alameda's first park has been renamed after being named after former U.S. President Andrew Jackson. The City Council directed the Parks and Recreation Commission to propose new names by the end of December 2020. Change to Chochenyo Park was made official on January 21, 2021.	[235] [236]
	Douglas Park	(Anna and Frederick) Douglass Park	Chicago	IL	US	Jul 22, 2020	Nov 18, 2020	Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners voted unanimously in an emergency meeting to rename the park, located in a 90% Black neighborhood.[ae] 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".[af] Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist born into slavery who ran a station on the Underground Railroad with his wife Anna Murray Douglass.	[238] [239] [237] [240] [241]
	Cassland Road Gardens	TBD	Hackney, London	Eng	UK	Jul 23, 2020	—	Local residents will decide on a new name for the park, which is named after the slave trader John Cass.	[242]
	Roy G. Williams Park	Elliott Avenue Park	Sanford	FL	US	Aug 11, 2020	Aug 10, 2020	The City Commission of Sanford restored the name to the park.[ag] Roy G. Williams was a former police chief who once removed Jackie Robinson from a baseball game to enforce segregation laws and was also once jailed for forcing city prisoners to work on his farm in Georgia. Elliott Avenue is a street on which the park is located.	[244] [245] [243]
	Mohrenstraße	Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße	Berlin	Be	De	Aug 20, 2020	—	The  [de] of Berlin's Mitte district decided to rename the street, which uses a term considered to be a racial slur.[ah] Anton Wilhelm Amo is considered to be "Germany's first well-known philosopher and legal scholar of African origin". (See also Mohrenstraße U-Bahn station, below).	[246] [247] [248] [249]
	Leopold II Tunnel	Annie Cordy Tunnel	Brussels	Bru	Be	Sep 8, 2020	—	Belgium's longest tunnel will be renamed after a woman following its renovations in 2021. Residents of Brussels can submit suggestions until the end of September 2020. A group of experts will put together a shortlist of names for the tunnel, from which residents will vote in November.	[250] [251][252]
	Black Boy Lane	TBD	West Green, London	Eng	UK	Oct 1, 2020	—	Residents and businesses on the street have been asked to choose a new name from a shortlist of two: Jocelyn Barrow Lane and La Rose Lane, after John La Rose.	[253]
	(Part of) Havelock Road	Guru Nanak Road	Southall, London	Eng	UK	Nov 25, 2020	—	The largest Sikh temple in Europe, the Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha Southall, is on this stretch of road. Virendra Sharma, the MP for Ealing Southall, had been campaigning to rename it since 1992.	[254] [255]
	Jeb Stuart Trail	Northern Edge Trail	Montgomery County	AL	US	Dec 7, 2020	Dec 7, 2020	A signpost on the trail containing the old name was removed while new maps were printed with the new trail name. A new signpost was installed within a week.	[256]

Government[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	38th Street and Chicago Avenue	George Perry Floyd Jr. Place	Minneapolis	MN	US	Sep 18, 2020	Sep 18, 2020	Two block section of Chicago Avenue renamed in honor of George Floyd.	[257]
	Two Independence Square	Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters	Washington	DC	US	Jun 24, 2020		NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that its headquarters building will be renamed after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first female African American engineer.	[258] [259]
	Lewis Cass Building	Elliott-Larsen Building	Lansing	MI	US	Jun 30, 2020	Jun 30, 2020	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.	[260] [261] [262]
	Mohrenstraße (U-Bahn station)	TBD	Berlin	Be	De	Jul 3, 2020		The Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG)[ai] initially announced that the station would be renamed "Glinkastraße" after a street nearby, as "Mohr" is considered a racial slur (see Mohrenstraße, above).[ah] The proposed name was criticized as its namesake, the composer Mikhail Glinka, was anti-Semitic.[aj] A final decision on the name has yet to be made.	[265] [264]
	East Calhoun	East Bde Maka Ska	Minneapolis	MN	US	July 23, 2021	July 31, 2021	The neighborhood was named East Calhoun, after the formerly named Lake Calhoun (for Vice President John C. Calhoun), prior to August 2021. In the aftermath of murder of George Floyd and greater awareness of racial justice issues, community members sought to change the name to honor the history of the Dakota people in the area.[266][267][268]

Industry[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	Buchanan Wharf	Barclays Glasgow Campus	Glasgow	Sct	UK	Jun 9, 2020	Jun 9, 2020	Barclays Bank removed the name of the slave-owning Tobacco Lord Andrew Buchanan from its new property development after receiving a petition.	[269]
	Colston Tower	Beacon Tower	Bristol	Eng	UK	Jun 11, 2020	Nov 26, 2020	The former name was removed from the building's exterior four days after the statue of Edward Colston nearby was pulled down. The new name was voted for by the 20 businesses based in the tower; it mirrors the renaming of the nearby concert hall, Colston Hall, as the Bristol Beacon.	[270] [271]
	Apple Buchanan Street	Apple Glasgow	Glasgow	Sct	UK	Jun 12, 2020	Jun 12, 2020	Apple renamed its Glaswegian store because of Andrew Buchanan's connection to the slave trade as a tobacco plantation owner.	[272] [273]
	Jefferson Area Builders	Charlottesville Area Builders	Albemarle County	VA	US	Jun 12, 2020	Jun 12, 2020	The company stated that Jefferson's history of slavery and the changed political climate led to the name change.	[274] [275]
	Charleston Tea Plantation	Charleston Tea Garden	Wadmalaw Island	SC	US	June 2020	June 2020	While there had never been any major outcries or backlash regarding the garden's original name, the Bigelows said they have always been sensitive to the fact that the word "plantation" carries significant pain for many in the country and throughout the world.[276]	[276] [277]
	Darlie (toothpaste)	TBD	n/a	n/a	Cn	Jun 19, 2020	—	Colgate-Palmolive stated, "We are currently working ... to review and further evolve all aspects of the brand, including the brand name." Darlie's marketing and packaging features the phrase, 黑人牙膏, which translates into "Black people toothpaste."	[278]
	Calhoun Square (shopping mall)	Seven Points	Minneapolis	MN	US	Jun 19, 2020	Oct 21, 2020	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.	[279] [280]
	Fair & Lovely (cosmetics)	Glow & Lovely Glow & Handsome	n/a	n/a	In	Jun 25, 2020		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.	[281] [282] [283] [284] [285]
	Splash Mountain (log flume ride)	New Adventures with Princess Tiana[ak]	Bay Lake Anaheim	FL CA	US	Jun 25, 2020		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.	[286]
	Gen. Jubal A. Early (ferry)	Historic White's Ferry[al]	Dickerson	MD	US	Jul 4, 2020[am]	Jul 4, 2020[am]	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.	[287] [288]

Food and drink[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	Arabian Joe's Baker Josef's Josephsbrau Pilgrim Joe's Thai Joe's Trader Giotto's Trader Jacques' Trader Joe San Trader José's Trader Ming's various others	Trader Joe's	n/a	n/a	US	Jul 8, 2019[an]	—	In 2019, Trader Joe's stated that labels which were using such variations of the "Trader Joe's" name were being eliminated, and "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. On Jul 24, 2020, Trader Joe's reversed its stance, stating that they "disagree that any of these labels are racist", and that they would only decide on renaming a product "based on what customers purchase [and] the feedback we receive from our customers and [employees]", and not based on a petition.[ao]	[291] [290] [289] [292] [293] [294] [295]
	Sambo's (restaurant)	Chad's	Santa Barbara	CA	US	Jun 5, 2020	Jul 14, 2020	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.	[296] [297] [298] [299]
	Bully Hayes Restaurant	TBD	Akaroa	CAN	NZ	Jun 9, 2020	—	The restaurant's owners announced that they would be renaming it because of William "Bully" Hayes's involvement in blackbirding in the Pacific during the late 19th century.	[300] [301]
	Aunt Jemima (breakfast food)	Pearl Milling Company	n/a	n/a	US	Jun 17, 2020	—	The breakfast foods company announced it was changing its name and imaging, noting that it is "based on a racial stereotype."	[302][303]
	Eskimo Pie (ice cream bar)	Edy's Pie	n/a	n/a	US	Jun 19, 2020	—	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.	[304] [305]
	Beso de Negra (confectionery)	TBD	n/a	n/a	Co	Jun 19, 2020	—	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.	[306] [307] [308]
	Redskins Chicos (confectionery)	Red Ripper Cheekies	n/a	n/a	Au, NZ & SA	Jun 23, 2020	—	Being renamed by Nestlé. "Redskins" and "Chicos" have been interpreted as derogatory terms for Native Americans and Latin Americans, respectively. Just over 1% of Australia's population is Latin American Australians or Mexican Australians.	[309] [310]
	Dixie Brewing Company[ap]	Faubourg Brewing Company	New Orleans	LA	US	Jun 26, 2020		Owner Gayle Benson announced the plan to change the name and requested community input. Dixie is a nickname for the Southern United States, especially the states that formed the Confederacy.	[311] [312]
	Colston Arms (pub)	Ye olde Pubby Mcdrunkface (temporarily)	Bristol	Eng	UK	Jun 30, 2020	Jun 30, 2020	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.	[313] [314]
	Eskimo (ice lolly)	O'Payo	n/a	n/a	Dk	Jul 14, 2020	—	[dk] 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.	[315] [316] [317]
	Crazy Horse Beer and Burgers	Lucky Horse Beer and Burgers	Des Moines	IA	US	Jul 15, 2020	Jul 16, 2020	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.	[318] [319]
	Coon (cheese)	Cheer	n/a	n/a	Au	Jul 24, 2020	—	While its owners have said in the past that Coon cheese was named after US cheese maker Edward William Coon, this assertion has been challenged, with no link found between the two. "Coon" is a derogatory term for black people, in Australia mainly referring to Indigenous Australians and African Australians.	[320][321]
	Zigeunersauce (condiment)	Paprikasauce Ungarische Art	n/a	n/a	De	Aug 16, 2020	—	Knorr, a Unilever brand, announced it would rename Zigeunersauce to Paprikasauce Ungarische Art. The term Zigeuner translates to "gypsy" and is generally considered offensive. The replacement name translates to "Hungarian-style paprika sauce".	[322] [323]
	Uncle Ben's (parboiled rice)	Ben's Original	n/a	n/a	US	Sep 22, 2020	—	Parent company Mars Inc stated that "now is the right time to evolve the Uncle Ben's brand, including its visual brand identity." Effective September 22, Uncle Ben's has been renamed to Ben's Original.	[324] [325][326]
	Geechie Boy Mill	Marsh Hen Mill		SC	US				[327]
	[es]	TBA			Es				[328]

Healthcare[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	Dixie Regional Medical Center	Intermountain St. George Regional Hospital	St. George	UT	US	Jul 16, 2020	Jan 1, 2021	Dixie Regional Medical Center Governing Board announced the name change, effective January 1, 2021.	[329] [330] [331]
	Margaret Sanger Health Center	Manhattan Health Center	New York City	NY	US	Jul 21, 2020	Jul 21, 2020	Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) announced it was removing the name of Margaret Sanger from its Manhattan clinic because of her support for eugenics. Karen Seltzer, PPGNY board chair, cited Sanger's "racist legacy" as a reason for the removal. Defenders, including historian Linda Gordon, claimed that Sanger was "no more racist than many progressives of her time".	[332] [333] [334] [335]
	Carilion Stonewall Jackson Hospital	Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital	Lexington	VA	US	Jul 23, 2020	—	Carilion Clinic announced it had obtained full ownership of the hospital, and would rename the hospital "follow[ing] the naming convention it uses for all other facilities ... to reflect the region it serves" once the "necessary regulations are met".	[336] [337]

Lodging[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	Captain Cook Hotel	Dive	Dunedin	Ota	NZ	Jun 15, 2020	Jun 18, 2020	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.	[338] [339] [340]
	Stonewall Jackson Hotel	Hotel 24 South	Staunton	VA	US	Jun 16, 2020	Sep 1, 2020	Hotel owner renamed the hotel (named after Confederate general Stonewall Jackson).	[341] [342]
	Stonewall Jackson Inn	TBD	Harrisonburg	VA	US	Jun 26, 2020		Owners had purchased the bed and breakfast in 2019 intending to change the name and are seeking donations to fund the name change.	[343]
	Robert E. Lee Hotel Sheridan Livery Inn	The Gin Tonic	Lexington	VA	US	Jul 29, 2020[aq]	—	Both buildings are owned by the same family, who chose the names so that they could be referred to as "The Gin and Tonic".	[344] [345] [346]

Music[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	Colston Hall	Bristol Beacon	Bristol	Eng	UK	Jun 9, 2020	Sep 23, 2020	Bristol Music Trust announced that the venue, located near the statue that was famously toppled on June 8, would be renamed; it described this as "a fresh start for the organisation and its place in the city". There had been plans to rename the venue since 2017.	[347] [348] [349]
	Lady Antebellum (band)	Lady A	Nashville	TN	US	Jun 11, 2020	Jun 11, 2020	US country music band changed its name because of its association with slavery.[ar] 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 Jul 8, 2020, the band filed a lawsuit against the singer.	[350] [351] [352]
	One Little Indian Records	One Little Independent Records	London	Eng	UK	Jun 11, 2020	Jun 11, 2020	With the name change that the company announced they would donate money towards organisations which promote and assist Native American communities in North America. In a written statement, founder David Birkett explained. "The last few weeks have been a monumental learning curve ... Following the receipt of an eye-opening letter from a Crass fan that detailed precisely why the logo and label name are offensive, as well as the violent history of the terminology, I felt equally appalled and grateful to them for making me understand what must be changed."	[353] [354]
	Dixie Chicks (band)	The Chicks	Dallas	TX	US	Jun 25, 2020	Jun 25, 2020	US country music band changed their name to "The Chicks". The word "Dixie" is a nickname for the Southern United States, especially those states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America; it is part of the culture of the American South. The name change followed criticism that the word had negative connotations of American slavery.	[355] [356] [357]
	Slaves (band)	TBD	Sacramento	CA	US	Jun 25, 2020	—	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."	[358]
	The Black Madonna (disc jockey)	The Blessed Madonna	Louisville	KY	US	Jul 20, 2020	Jul 20, 2020	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 [her] family’s lifelong and profound Catholic devotion to a specific kind of European icon of the Virgin Mary which is dark in hue".	[359]
	Joey Negro (disc jockey)	Dave Lee	Isle of Wight	Eng	UK	Jul 21, 2020	Jul 21, 2020	The English DJ announced the change a day after fellow Disc Jockey 'The Black Madonna', Lee admitted he had "not felt comfortable with the name Joey Negro for a while, especially as I've got older"	[360] [361]

Sports[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	Washington Redskins	Washington Football Team (temporarily)	Landover	MD	US	Jul 13, 2020	Jul 23, 2020	Main article: Washington Redskins name controversy On July 1, 2020, a group of investors worth $620 billion had written letters to Nike, FedEx and PepsiCo asking them to stop their support of the NFL until the Washington Redskins changed their name. On July 23, Washington Football Team was adopted as the club's temporary name, with an official replacement to be chosen later. The team also 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 later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Founding owner George Preston Marshall was against integration, and his team was the last NFL team to integrate.	[362] [363] [364] [365] [366] [367] [368]
	Edmonton Eskimos	Edmonton Football Team (temporarily) Edmonton Elks	Edmonton	AB	CA	Jul 16, 2020	Jul 21, 2020 Jun 1, 2021	On Jul 21, 2020, the Edmonton Football Team announced that their Board of Directors decided to discontinue the use of the old name, as Eskimo is considered a derogatory name for indigenous Alaskans and Canadians.[as] Belairdirect, a longtime sponsor, announced earlier that month that it would cut ties with the team if the name was not changed. On June 1, 2021, it was formally announced that the new team name would be the Edmonton Elks.	[370] [371] [372] [369] [373]
	Kenesaw Mountain Landis Award	TBD				Oct 2, 2020	Oct 2, 2020	The Baseball Writers' Association of America announced that the most valuable player awards presented annually in Major League Baseball would no longer carry the name of the first commissioner of MLB. Landis, who served from 1920 to 1944, resisted efforts to integrate both Major League and Minor League Baseball. A number of past MVPs, including Barry Larkin, Mike Schmidt, and Terry Pendleton, objected to continued use of Landis' name. The BBWAA announced its decision after 89 percent of its members voted for the change.	[374]
	J. G. Taylor Spink Award	BBWAA Career Excellence Award				Feb 5, 2021	Feb 5, 2021	For the second time since Floyd's death, the BBWAA changed the name of an award due to revelations of racist conduct involving an honoree. This time, it affected the award presented for lifetime achievement in writing about baseball. Spink, who published the Sporting News from 1914 to 1962, used "racist language, ugly stereotypes, and derogatory portrayals" of Negro League players and other African-Americans. The name change received 97 percent support among the association's members.	[375]
	Cleveland Indians	Cleveland Guardians	Cleveland	OH	US			Main article: Cleveland Indians name and logo controversy The team announced that they would be reviewing their name to "embrace [their] responsibility to advance social justice and equality." On December 14, 2020, they announced they would be retiring the Indians branding. On July 23, 2021, they announced the new name to be the Cleveland Guardians, which will take place following the 2021 season.	[376] [377] [378]

Terminology[]

Image	Old	New	Group	Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	slaves (script)	dm-deps	OpenZFS (storage platform)	Jun 11, 2020	Jun 11, 2020			Developer Matt Ahrens, co-creator of ZFS, updated the code to "[r]emove unnecessary references to slavery". The abbreviation "dm" stands for "device-mapper" and "deps" for "dependents".	[379] [380] [381] [382]
	master (code branch)	main	GitHub	Jun 11, 2020	—	GitHub CEO Nat Friedman announced they were working on the change. Developer Petr Baudiš, self-described "clueless Central European youngster [in 2005] whose command of English was mostly illusory", stated that he chose the term to "express 'this is where you cloned this repo[sitory] from'", as in "master recording".	[383] [384] [385] Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). [386][387]
	master	master sommelier	Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas	Jun 22, 2020	Jun 22, 2020	Further information: Racism in the wine industry Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas (CMS-A) 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 [Master Sommelier] status" be shattered after her CMS-A testing experience, which included the requirement that master sommeliers be addressed as "master".[at]	[389] [388] [390] [391]
	master bedroom master bathroom	primary bedroom primary bathroom	Houston Association of Realtors	Jun 25, 2020	Jun 25, 2020	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.	[392]
	master bedroom master bathroom	main bedroom main bathroom	GetBurbed	Jun 30, 2020	Jun 30, 2020	GetBurbed is a real estate brokerage firm in Chicago.	[393]
	master slave blacklist whitelist	source replica blocklist allowlist	MySQL (RDBMS)	Jul 1, 2020	Jul 1, 2020	Product manager Kenny Gryp announced that the change was being implemented and would be reflected in future releases.	[394] [395] [396]
	master slave blacklist whitelist	various[au]	Linux (operating system)	Jul 10, 2020	Jul 10, 2020	Principal engineer Linus Torvalds added to the coding style documentation a recommendation to "avoid introducing new usage" of such terminology.[av]	[397] [398] [399]
	Eskimo Nebula Siamese Twins Galaxy	NGC 2392 NGC 4567 and NGC 4568	NASA	Aug 5, 2020	Aug 5, 2020	NASA announced that it was reviewing the unofficial terminology it has used for celestial objects in order to determine if any are "not only insensitive, but can be actively harmful". For terminology it has deemed inappropriate, official designations determined by the International Astronomical Union would be used. Two nicknames had been determined as inappropriate at the time of NASA's announcement.	[400] [401]
	McCown's longspur	thick-billed longspur	American Ornithological Society	Aug 7, 2020	Aug 7, 2020	The North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society changed the name of the bird to "thick-billed longspur", which is a literal translation of its genus name, Rhynchophanes, following Black Birder's Week and the Bird Names for Birds campaign.[aw] John P. McCown was a general for the Confederate army, took part in the forced relocation of Native American tribes in the 1840s, and fought in the Seminole Wars.[ax]	[405] [402] [406] [403] [407] [404]
	chosen freeholder	county commissioner	State of New Jersey (US state)	Aug 21, 2020	—	Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation to change the name of the governing bodies at the county level in the state. Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver, an African-American woman who was once a freeholder herself, said that the term "refers to a time when only white male landowners could hold public office".	[408] [409]

Museums[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	USCGC Taney (museum ship)	WHEC-37 (hull number)	Baltimore	MD	US	Jul 1, 2020	Jul 1, 2020	Living Classrooms Foundation, the ship's steward, has removed the previous name from the United States Coast Guard Cutter, and it is now referred to by its hull identification number, WHEC-37.[ay] Roger B. Taney was a Chief Justice of the United States who authored the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, declaring that all African Americans were not, and could not become, American citizens, regardless of whether they were enslaved or not.	[412] [411] [410]
	Plimoth Plantation	TBD	Plymouth	MA	US	Jul 6, 2020	—	Plimoth Plantation announced a change of name for its 400th anniversary, and is using "Plimoth Patuxet" on its interim logo.	[413] [414] [415]
	T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum	TBD	Pensacola	FL	US	Jul 13, 2020	—	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.	[416] [417] [418]
	San Diego Museum of Man	Museum of Us	San Diego	CA	US	Aug 2, 2020	Aug 2, 2020	On Jun 24, 2020, the Board of Trustees approved the name change. The new name was chosen to "better reflect [ the museum's] work towards equity, inclusion, and decolonization".	[419] [420] [421]

Decision pending[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Details	Ref.
	various	TBD	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 (Prevention) Law, 2015" with the intention of removing references of colonialism and the slave trade. Floyd's murder and the removal of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol were explicitly referenced.	[422] [423] [424]
	Hibbert Street	TBD	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.	[425]
	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.	[426] [427]
	J. Marion Sims (residence hall)	TBD	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.	[428] [429]
	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".	[430]
	John C. Calhoun Drive	TBD	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.	[431]
	Jordan Hall Jordan River Jordan Avenue Jordan Parking Garage David Starr Jordan Prize possibly others	TBD	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 [Indiana University] campuses and remov[ing] names of anyone whose statements and writings are judged unworthy of the recognition".	[432] [433]
	Clarence Cook Little Hall	TBD	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.	[104] [434] [435] [436]
	Washington and Lee University	TBD	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. On June 4, 2021, after 11 months of deliberation, the committee voted 22-6 to keep the name.[437]	[438]
	Aycock Residence Hall Carr Building Josephus Daniels Building Ruffin Residence Hall	TBD	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 Jul 10, 2020, 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[az] men the buildings were named after had "used their positions to impose and maintain violent systems of racial subjugation". On Jul 16, 2020, the Board of Trustees approved a policy regarding the removal of names from buildings.	[440] [441] [439] [442] [443]
	Confederate names on property under US Department of Defense[ba]	TBD	n/a	n/a	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.[bb] 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.[bc] The guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville is named after a Confederate victory. On December 23, President Trump vetoed the bill. The House and Senate voted on December 28, 2020 and January 1, 2021, respectively, to override the veto; this was the only veto override of Trump's presidency.[448]	[444] [449] [450] [446] [447]
	Columbus Park	Piazza Italia Park	San Antonio	TX	US	San Antonio's City Council was scheduled to vote on the renaming on August 13, 2020. A statue of Columbus was removed from the park on July 1, 2020 after it was vandalized.	[451]
	Margaret Sanger Square	TBD	New York City	NY	US	Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) announced it was "working with the Community Board, City Council and community" to rename the intersection of Bleecker and Mott Streets outside its Manhattan Health Clinic. Margaret Sanger was a supporter of eugenics. The City Council had voted to name the intersection after Sanger in 1993, as PPGNY had moved a clinic to that location and advocated for the honorary naming.	[333] [334] [335]

Proposals with official backing[]

Image	Old	New	Location			Details	Ref.
	Dundas Street	TBD	Toronto	ON	Ca	On Jun 10, 2020, Toronto mayor John Tory stated that a working group would be formed "to examine the issue of renaming streets" in response to a petition about the street named after Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. The proposal also received support from Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath. Dundas allegedly prolonged Britain's involvement in slavery by 15 years as he had "made himself the champion of 'gradual' abolition of the slave trade". The city's final report, published in Jun 18, 2021, supported renaming the street. The city's process also sparked reviews of the use of the Dundas name in other areas of the province, including Mississauga, London and Hamilton. On Jul 6, 2021, the City of Toronto's executive committee unanimously supported the renaming of Dundas Street.	[452] [453] [454] [455] [456] [457] [458]
	various	TBD	London	Eng	UK	London mayor Sadiq Khan announced that street names in London with links to slavery are being reviewed.	[459]
	Colville Street	TBD	n/a	n/a	Ug	A petition calling on the government to remove the names of several British colonial figures was presented to parliament by lawyer Apollo Makubuya, former Principal Judge James Ogoola, and Member of Parliament Medard Segona. Makubuya explained "our petition has been given a new momentum" because of the George Floyd protests. Speaker Rebecca Kadaga announced plans to convene a task force for the renaming and Kampala lord mayor Erias Lukwago described the motivation as "removing the names of dictators and people who committed crimes against humanity from our streets".	[460] [461] [462] [463]
	King's African Rifles Drive
	Speke Road
	Andrew Jackson Post Office	TBD	Rolando, San Diego	CA	US	Having received a petition, city councillor Georgette Gomez wrote a letter to Congress to support legislation changing the building's name. Rep. Sara Jacobs has called for "genuine community involvement in the naming process."	[464] [465][466]
	Squaw Valley Ski Resort	Palisades Tahoe	Lake Tahoe	CA	US	Management of the resort 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.	[467]
	Jefferson Davis Parkway	Norman C. Francis Parkway	New Orleans	LA	US	Both petitions were created by the Vice Chairman of New Orleans' Regional Transit Authority.	[468]
	Robert E. Lee Boulevard	Leah Chase Boulevard
	Woodrow Wilson HS	TBD	Fargo	ND	US	Fargo Human Relations Commission unanimously voted to recommend the Fargo School Board rename the school.	[469] [470]

See also[]

• List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests
• List of U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers
• Native American mascot controversy

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