
Military installations, ships named after Confederates begin renaming process
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The Department of Defense is currently carrying out the process to rename U.S. military installations and other areas that had been named after Confederate officers.
The DoD said in an announcement that naming after Confederates had been done during "the height of the Jim Crow Laws in the South," in an effort to garner support from the South and without consideration for Black service members. Ronn Blitzer is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics and breaking news.
"All this changed in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020," the announcement said. "Many people protested systemic racism and pointed to Confederate statues and bases as part of that system."
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