What has to happen to change the name of Savannah's Calhoun Square?
A group has filed an application with the city to rename Calhoun Square, named for John C. Calhoun, but the process to make that happen is complex.
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Name change sought for Savannah's Whitefield, Calhoun squares
Savannah Morning News Savannah's squares are, in many ways, a portal to the past — more than green spaces, they are a mostly-untarnished window to the nearly 288-year history of the oldest city in Georgia. But history isn't always comfortable. Contemporary values rarely resemble those of the past, and after a few hundred years of social change, prominent historic figures and the ideas they represent come to be viewed by some as antiquated, unethical, or in some cases, offensive. Last summer, the U.S. was faced with a racial reckoning. Following the death of George Floyd at the hands ...
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