Broward County - Named for Napoleon Bonaparte Broward "An arms smuggler as well as a racist", "in 1907 …Broward proposed that every black person be physically evicted from the state."[2]:337 According to the Sun-Sentinel, Broward was "an unapologetic segregationist."
In September, 2017, a Broward County lawyer, Bill Gelin, published an excerpt of a forgotten document that Broward wrote during his term and may have delivered as a speech. He called on Congress "to purchase territory, either domestic or foreign, and provide means to purchase the property of the negroes at a reasonable price and to transport them to the territory purchased by the United States." Whites would not be allowed to live in the new nation, and blacks would not be allowed to return to live in the United States. (This is the "colonization" project of the nineteenth century, which led to the founding of Liberia and Sierra Leone. See American Colonization Society.) "The white people have no time to make excuses for the shortcomings of the negro," he said. "And the negro has less inclination to work for one and be directed by one he considers exacting, to the extent that he must do a good day's work or pay for the bill of goods sold to him."[3]
These remarks prompted a series of voices to call for removal of the statue of Broward from the Broward County Courthouse. County Mayor Barbara Sharief said "she would be open to discussion about renaming the county if it's what people want to do,"[4] although she said shortly afterward that "we're not considering that at this time" and "I don't even want to go down that road."[5]