A member of the Kansas City parks board wants the city to rename an iconic fountain and street that run through the city's County Club Plaza because they are named after a man who historians say was a racist.
The J.C. Nichols fountain sits in a park where protesters gathered last week to protest George Floyd's death. A parkway through the Plaza also bears Nichols' name. Nichols developed the Plaza and many affluent city and suburban neighborhoods but he barred minorities from living there.
Meanwhile, University of Missouri students are asking that a statue of Thomas Jefferson be removed from the Columbia campus because he owned slaves.
