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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAla. lawmaker says he will block efforts to rename library honoring Rosa Parks
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/100fc83ebdcc47e690690a6437b823c1/AL--People-Rosa-ParksMONTGOMERY, Ala. State Rep. Alvin Holmes says changing the name of the Rosa Parks Avenue Branch Library in honor of the city's first black librarian at a public library would send the wrong message to the world.
The Montgomery Democrat says if the city council agrees Tuesday to change the name to the Bertha Pleasant Williams Branch Library, he will block all city and county legislation.
The Montgomery Advertiser reports (http://on.mgmadv.com/PWAZlR ) the city-county library board of directors in May unanimously voted to change the name of the library to honor Williams, who was a public librarian in Montgomery for 21 years. The county commission unanimously approved the change last week.
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)With this inscription--
Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor (July 11, 1897 March 10, 1973) was the Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement. His office gave him responsibility for administrative oversight of the Birmingham Fire Department and the Birmingham Police Department, which had their own chiefs.
Through his covert actions to enforce racial segregation and deny civil rights to African American citizens, especially during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Birmingham Campaign of 1963, Connor became an international symbol of bigotry. Connor infamously directed the use of fire hoses, and police attack dogs against peaceful demonstrators, including children.[1][2] His aggressive tactics backfired when the spectacle of the brutality being broadcast on national television served as one of the catalysts for major social and legal change in the southern United States and helped in large measure to assure the passage by the United States Congress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Connor
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dionysus
(26,467 posts)they want to change it to be named after the city's first black librarian...
and Alvin Holmes is an african american dem...
Scuba
(53,475 posts)dionysus
(26,467 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)there's at least one, and probably several buildings in that county named after Ronald Fucking Reagan.
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