In the petition, Che Anderson, vice chancellor for metropolis and assemblage relations, wrote that the connection plantation “connotes oppression” and recalls “the achy past of slavery successful America.”
The UMass aesculapian schoolhouse photographed successful 2018.
By Daniel Kool, The Boston Globe
October 12, 2022 | 9:40 AM
The University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School successful Worcester is petitioning the City Council to rename 3 streets it claims enactment arsenic a reminder of the nation’s past of slavery. The schoolhouse is requesting the metropolis alteration the sanction of Plantation Street, which runs on the campus, arsenic good arsenic Plantation Parkway and Plantation Terrace to the campus’s northbound and south, respectively.
In the petition, Che Anderson, vice chancellor for metropolis and assemblage relations, wrote that the connection plantation “connotes oppression” and recalls “the achy past of slavery successful America.” Anderson added that UMass “would anticipation to enactment successful a larger assemblage speech regarding the due people of enactment to find a much due name.” The Worcester City Council is expected to perceive the petition astatine its weekly meeting Wednesday astatine 6:30 p.m. From there, it volition beryllium referred to the Public Works Committee, which oversees section infrastructure related to streets and nationalist buildings.
Plantation Street, the archetypal roadworthy built connected the Quinsigamond Plantation, was established earlier 1722, according to an account of section history by the City of Worcester. Before the thoroughfare was named, locals called it “Love Lane.” In February, UMass Chan added diversity, equity, and inclusion arsenic a pillar of its IMPACT 2025 strategical plan.
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