Coalition to Rename Pershing Square
Rename Pershing Square is a coalition of Los Angeles community organizations calling on City Council to change Pershing Square—named after a white supremacist general, with no ties to Los Angeles, responsible for genocidal campaigns against communities dear to Los Angeles (Filipino, Native American, Muslim, and Mexican). We seek to rename the park “Lawson Square”, after a civil rights legend who spent 25 years as a community, labor and religious leader in Los Angeles.