City of Milwaukee - File #: 210464

• File #: 210464
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/7/2021
• In control: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• Final action: 7/27/2021
• Title: Resolution approving the name change of Lindbergh Park to Lucille Berrien Park by Milwaukee County, in the 6th Aldermanic District.
• Sponsors: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• Indexes: PARKS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
8/5/2021	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
7/27/2021	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
7/16/2021	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Mary Schanning - DCD The Public Works Committee was added as sponsor	Pass	4:0
6/7/2021	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
210464
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
Title
Resolution approving the name change of Lindbergh Park to Lucille Berrien Park by Milwaukee County, in the 6th Aldermanic District.
Analysis
This resolution provides City of Milwaukee approval for the renaming of Lindbergh Park to Lucille Berrien Park by Milwaukee County, in the 6th Aldermanic District.
Body
Whereas, Lindbergh Park is located near North 16th and West Nash Streets in the Arlington Heights neighborhood in the 6th Aldermanic District; and

Whereas, The park was conveyed to Milwaukee County by the City of Milwaukee in 1936 and included in the property deed is a provision that the park “shall bear the name, to wit: Lindbergh Park” which provision was revised in 2001 by an Amendment to Park Deed Restrictions, recorded on title with the Milwaukee County Register of Deeds Office as Document No. 8338227 on August 28, 2002, to require City approval via adoption of a resolution of only substantial name changes to Lindbergh Park; and

Whereas, The park is named after Charles Lindbergh, an American aviator who rose to prominence for making the first solo, non-stop flight between New York City and Paris and who briefly attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and

Whereas, Throughout his military career, Lindbergh was also known for his anti-interventionist position during World War II and a 1939 article in Readers Digest, in which he argued, amongst other anti-integration positions, for the preservation of the white race and denounced “dilution by foreign races”; and

Whereas, As part of his anti-interventionist sentiments, Lindbergh also made anti-Semitic statements that blamed U.S. involvement in World War II on Jewish people and claimed they were misleading the American public at the severity of Nazi Germany; and

Whereas, The City of Milwaukee joins with Milwaukee County in its commitment to ensure that its monuments, including its parks, are named after tho...