![]() Likewise, Carroll Plaza’s name remains untouched.Īdditionally, the board of Education has done little to nothing about renaming the Charles Carroll School No. 3) rightly declared to be unworthy of honoring in a public space. A year and a half later Nathaniel Square still honors the man who RIT (and earlier the city board of education when they expunged his name from the Nathaniel Rochester School No. Having initiated the process, the city council then stopped dead in its tracks. And in December of that year, the council also authorized the preparation of the paperwork necessary to effect the renaming of Carroll Plaza. The city council got off to a good start in 2021 when they directed the city historian to conduct, “a preliminary survey in search of public spaces named for people who enslaved others,” and to, “identify Rochesterians who, owing to their contributions toward the healing of historic inequalities and to the development of a city that is thriving based on fairness and justice for all, deserve recognition as replacement namesakes for those public places.” Even prior to such a survey, two sites had already come under scrutiny as candidates for renaming: Nathaniel Square Park on Alexander Street and Major Charles Carroll Plaza (named for one of Nathaniel’s slave-owning partners) near the Main Street Bridge. The recent decision by the Rochester Institute of Technology to strip Nathaniel Rochester’s name off one of their buildings is both an acknowledgment that past recipients of such naming commemorations should no longer be honored due to their slave-owning/slave-dealing actions, and a wake up call to the Rochester city council and the board of education, each of which has been unfathomably derelict in their obligation to do the same for city sites and city schools.
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