Street honoring KKK leader renamed after student-led effort
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The village board of Malverne, on Long Island, voted last year to rename Lindner Place, named after Paul Lindner, a banker who helped develop the village more than a century ago and also served as great titan of the New York State Klan.
The change became official last week when Lindner Place became Acorn Way.
“The true meaning of justice is righting the wrongs that came before you,” Malverne High School sophomore Olivia Brown told WCBS.
Brown was part of a group of students who began researching Lindner in 2020 and learned he was a Klan leader.
Students pressed for the street name to be changed in school forums and with the village board, which voted to change the name in September 2022.
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It seems like an obvious conclusion, but there are still people resisting the erasure of street names honoring KKK members and leaders. What’s up with that?