The City Council of Fort Bragg, Calif., named for a Confederate general and slave owner, will discuss putting a name change on the November ballot.
The City Council of Fort Bragg, a small Northern California city named after Braxton Bragg, a Confederate Army general and slave owner, is pondering putting a town name change on the November ballot.
The move by the Mendocino County town of nearly 7,400 comes in response “to many requests that the city of Fort Bragg, Calif., change its name to avoid any connotation associated with Confederate Army Gen. Braxton Bragg,” a post on theThe post, which has received more than 900 contentious comments decrying and praising the call for conversation, comes amid a national reckoning with racism following protests against police violence.
Confederate statues, and namesakes and icons associated with racism and white supremacy have faced intense scrutiny.sent a letter to then-Mayor Lindy Peters asking Fort Bragg to make a change. According to the letter, Bragg’s mother was jailed for killing a freed, formerly enslaved person, and the Confederate general enslaved 105 people at his Louisiana plantation before he “committed treason against our nation during the Civil War and fought to defend the defenseless cause of slavery.
The city — once just a military camp — was named for Bragg in 1857, before the Civil War, by founder Horatio C. Gibson, who served under Bragg in the Mexican-American War, according to website
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