An independent commission on Tuesday recommended new names for nine Army posts that now commemorate Confederate officers. Fort Bragg would become Fort Liberty. For the first time, Army bases would be named after Black soldiers and women.
The recommendations are the latest step in a broader effort by the military to confront racial injustice, most recently in the aftermath of the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, is the only base that wouldn’t be named after a person. Fort Gordon in Georgia would become Fort Eisenhower, after President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who led European forces in World War II.
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