Current and former Florida State and University of Florida students are pushing to rename two major sports venues — Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee and the Stephen C. O’Connell Center in Gainesville — because they currently honor segregationists.
Campbell served as president of Florida State College for Women when he led its transition in 1947 to a coed campus renamed as Florida State University, now one of the state's largest.
In his change.org petition, Scott contends Doak’s segregationist views are divisive. “Therefore views his name should be removed from a stadium that has been home to many Black football players helping to build the school and the tradition to what it has become today: a national treasure,” Scott espoused.