Tempe city leaders will move forward with changing the name of several streets and parks named after now-deceased members of the Ku Klux Klan's Tempe chapter.
Tempe Elementary School District sent an email to parents last week disclosing that three schools were named after dues-paying members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Tempe councilmembers this week will discuss a recommendation to rename several city parks, streets and neighborhoods named for individuals who were recently discovered to be members of a local Ku Klux Klan chapter in the 1920s.Hudson Drive, Hudson Lane, Laird Street, and Hudson, Harelson and Redden parks bear the names of now-deceased community leaders who were found by the
TEMPE, Ariz. Tempe will consider renaming parks and streets named after former community leaders who were recently discovered to have been dues-paying mem.
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