This is about the controversy surrounding the name, LeConte Elementary School in Berkeley, and the movement to rename it after someone with a more respectable past. I wonder if this will also affect Mount LeConte, LeConte Falls and the LeConte Divide in the High Sierra. His book, "A Summer of Rambles Through the High Sierras of California" is still one of my favorite reads on the subject.
Joseph LeConte, for whom the elementary school is named, was one of the first UC Berkeley professors. LeConte and his brother John — the first acting UC Berkeley president — were raised in Georgia and owned more than 200 slaves. In addition, the family manufactured munitions for the Confederate States Army.
Oh, well. Nobody's perfect.