The change was part of a broad Department of Defense initiative, motivated by the 2020 George Floyd protests, to rename military installations that had been named after confederate soldiers.
Camp Bragg opened in 1918 and was upgraded to Fort Bragg in 1922. The post was one of nine Southern Army bases named after Confederate leaders being renamed after the 2020 killing of George Floyd.
On April 27, 2023, Fort Lee, a military base in Virginia named for a Confederate general, was renamed for two African American officers: Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg, the U.S. Army's first Black three-star general, and Lt.
The cost to rename Fort Bragg - one of the largest military installations in the world by population - will total about $6.37 million, ing to a commission report.
North Carolina's Fort Bragg is now Fort Liberty, as the US Army on Friday redesignated one of the largest military installations in the world. The renaming was formalized in a ceremony on Friday morning. The change follows a branch-wide push to rename bases that bear the name of Confederate leaders.