The change is part of a broad Department of Defense initiative, motivated by the 2020 George Floyd protests, to rename military installations bearing the name of confederate soldiers.
FORT LIBERTY, N.C. — Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans said was a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to current and prospective Black service members.
While other bases are being renamed for Black soldiers, U.S. presidents and trailblazing women, the North Carolina military installation is the only one not renamed after a person. Retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule said at a commission meeting last year that the new name was chosen because"liberty remains the greatest American value."
"The name changes, the mission does not change," base spokesperson Cheryle Rivas said Friday morning before the ceremony. Several military bases were named after Confederate soldiers during World War I and World War II as part of a"demonstration of reconciliation" with white southerners amid a broader effort to rally the nation to fight as one, said Nina Silber, a historian at Boston University.
For Isiah James, senior policy officer at the Black Veterans Project, the base renamings are a"long overdue" change he hopes will lead to more substantial improvements for Black service members.
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