The name of a militant black activist who called himself anti-white was removed yesterday from a list that the City Council is considering for street renamings.

The proposal to rename a Brooklyn street after Sonny Abubadika Carson, who died in 2002, was initially part of a package of 53 renamings for people including the actor Jerry Orbach and two firefighters who died in a Bronx fire last year.

Street renamings are typically approved by the council in large groups without objection, but the council speaker, Christine Quinn, said last week she did not support the measure for Carson because of his “very divisive history.”

A council committee considering the package took Carson out of it so that the rest of the names could go forward for a vote before the full council. Carson’s name has to be reintroduced separately to be considered again.

Carson’s supporters, who caused a brief disturbance during the City Council committee hearing yesterday, say he was an important figure in the city’s black community. He led protests against police brutality and founded the Black Men’s Movement Against Crack.

He also served 15 months in prison after his arrest on murder, attempted murder and kidnapping charges in 1974.