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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Op-Ed: These two peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains honor racists. They must be renamed [Los Angeles Times] In 1952, Californians met atop a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains and christened it Mt. Burnham. They were posthumously honoring Frederick Russell Burnham, a Pasadena resident who had risen to fame as a soldier of fortune in southern Africa. Strangely enough, this wasn’t the only mountain in the region with an African connection. In 1931, Burnham himself ha...

In 1952, Californians met atop a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains and christened it Mt. Burnham. They were posthumously honoring Frederick Russell Burnham, a Pasadena resident who had risen to fame as a soldier of fortune in southern Africa. Strangely enough, this wasn’t the only mountain in the region with an African connection. In 1931, Burnham himself had organized a state ceremony to name a summit a mile away in honor of Robert Baden-Powell, a defender of the English crown in southern Af...