“Regardless of what name is picked, it will be a name that represents more diversity in Savannah and sort of expands the story that Savannah tells about itself,” said the chairman of the local Historic Site and Monument Commission.
from one of its public squares, nominees being considered for the green space's new name include a Black woman who taught formerly enslaved people to read and write.
Instead, the nominees are four Black people — a pastor, a formerly enslaved woman, a civil rights hero and an Army pilot — as well as Native Americans who inhabited the area when Savannah was founded and a group of women who in the 1950s put Savannah on the path to preserving its past. For more than 170 years, the park-like space was named for John C. Calhoun, a South Carolina politician who served in Congress and as U.S. vice president in two administrations before his death in 1850.
Gunn leads a group of activists that wants the square to honor Taylor, who also assisted the Union Army as a nurse during the Civil War and went on to establish multiple schools for freed Black children. “I don’t know what the city council will do, but this family is honored that Clay was considered,” said Colette Carpenter, who didn't know her pilot son was being nominated until his Army buddies submitted an application.
“He was a major figure in American history, whether we like him or not," Tootle said of Calhoun. "I don’t agree with some of the things he did, but it doesn’t take away his contribution to the country.”
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