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Susannah Bryan
Sun Sentinel
June 3
Hazel Levine has lived on Forrest Street for 50 years and doesn't understand all the fuss over the name of her street.
But her neighbor, Carmella Gardner, .. was offended to learn the street .. through her predominantly black Liberia neighborhood was named for .. KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest ...
That split in the community has commissioners asking the city's African American advisory council to help make the call. The board is expected to make a recommendation during a public meeting Tuesday at 6 p.m.
After that, Mayor Peter Bober said he wants letters sent to those who live on Forrest Street about the possible name change. City officials say they are worried about the inconvenience to residents and business owners who would be forced to change their address ...
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/hollywood/fl-hollywood-kkk-street-reaction-20160605-story.html
linuxman
(2,337 posts)Pretty much everything that gets built here is named for Byrd.
Journeyman
(15,001 posts)Just rechristen the Street and proclaim its named for Forrest Tucker, star of stage, screen and TV, best known as Sgt. O'Rourke on TV's "F-Troop."
Or it could be kept in the family, and renamed in honor of Nathan Bedford Forrest III, great-grandson of the Confederate general, and first American General killed in action in the European Theater of WW2.
We can't do much to clean up our past, but we can at least tidy up our present.