Students who researched Lindner found that he led cross burnings and other racists acts, and even uncovered claims that Lindner’s KKK chapter burned down a Brooklyn orphanage. So they asked the mayor to rename the street.
"There’s no way that they can say this isn’t true, we presented them with the facts and the street name was voted on to be changed," Brown said. Students on Long island are looking to erase a part of their village's racist past, by changing the name of a street named after a Ku Klux Klan leader. NBC New York's Greg Cergol reports.
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