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Identifier
10012215
Description
Ada Conner, president of Limestone County area NAACP, wants to rename bridge near Mexia, Texas, which is still called "N----- Creek Bridge" which connects to "N----- Creek Road." Gary Bledsoe, president of the Austin-area NAACP, filed a proposal with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names that "N----- Creek Road" or "Negro Creek Road" would become "Jack Johnson Creek Road," after the Galveston-born boxer who in 1908 became the first Black heavyweight champion. The bridge can be seen running horizontally in the picture from the right lower corner towards the back, there is yellow pickup truck on the bridge, there is a woman standing on the left side of the truck, she is wearing a purple shirt and a mint green skirt, and there is a man seated on the cement pillar that comes out of the bridge and he is looking down to the river. [Note: the complete name of creek, "Nigger Creek," was published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on September 23, 1990 in an article titled "Sticks & Stones: Creeks and roads that degrade blacks are discriminating reminders of the past."]
Archival Date
1990-09-23
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6 09/23/1990 9053 [frame 24]
Original Format
Negatives, Color
File Format
JPG
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Subjects
Conner, Ada; Automobiles; Bridges
Subjects
Conner, Ada; Automobiles; Bridges