That has now expired and the renaming of the bases may proceed apace. 1, 2022 and there was a 90-day period for public comment. The commission finished their mission on Oct. The commission issued its first report in May 2022, which addressed renaming Army bases. Trump vetoed the legislation because of the presence of the commission, and huge bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress overrode his veto. Congress established the commission in the National Defense Authorization Act of fiscal 2021. Many people protested systemic racism and pointed to Confederate statues and bases as part of that system.
It was also the height of the Jim Crow Laws in the South, so there was no consideration for the feelings of African Americans who had to serve at bases named after men who fought to defend slavery.Īll this changed in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. That the men for whom the bases were named had taken up arms against the government they had sworn to defend was seen by some as a sign of reconciliation between the North and South. Some Army bases, established in the build-up and during World War I, were named for Confederate officers in an effort to court support from local populations in the South.
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