Broward County is named after former Florida Governor Napoleon Broward, and a statue of him has been on display in the county courthouse since the 1990s.
However, that statue is now being removed after it was uncovered that Broward had made a speech he calling for African-Americans to be resettled.
A courthouse gossip website JAABlog uncovered the speech, which called for the U.S. government to purchase land and move the nation's African-Americans there to establish a new country.
"The white people have no time to make excuses for the shortcomings of the negro," said Broward, who is best known for partially draining the Everglades.
"And the negro has less inclination to work for one and be directed by one he considers exacting, to the extent that he must do a good day's work or pay for the bill of goods sold to him."
Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief announced Tuesday that the statue will be removed, after receiving "quite a few complaints" in regard to it.
"I don't view it as a symbol of hate. What I view it as is oppression and offense, and if that's something that people don't want to experience on a daily basis then we have no problem with removing it," Sharief said, according to a report by NBC 6.
The statue will be removed and put into storage until a decision can be made on what to do with it.