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The Montgomery City Council will be voting to re-name the road Jeff Davis Avenue. The plan is to name the road after Attorney Fred Gray. Gray is well known for being Rosa Parks’ lawyer along with being on the front lines of a lot of the civil rights movement in Montgomery. Gray is a Montgomery native, his childhood home is on Jeff Davis Ave.
The City Council will put the name change to a vote Tuesday afternoon.
In addition to Gray being a civil rights activist, he also served as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives for 44 years helping to make changes all over Alabama. This re-naming is happening on the 56th year anniversary of the march from Montgomery to Selma and the 65th year anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Kamala Harris sits in seat that Rosa Parks used to protest whites-only policy at Woolrich s lunch counter in 1960 that is now at civil rights museum in Greensboro, North Carolina
Vice President Kamala Harris sat in the same spot as civil rights legend Rosa Parks during a surprise visit to the International Civil Rights Center & Museum
The museum was built in the building that housed Woolworth s, where the A&T Four staged the 1960 lunch counter sit-in, a key moment of the civil rights era
They had been inspired by Parks refusal to get up from her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955, along with her subsequent arrest
Troy University alumnus, Trustee Lamar P. Higgins remembered as a trailblazer, servant leader
News | April 16, 2021
Lamar P. Higgins was Troy University s first African American SGA President and Trustee. He passed away on Thursday after an extended illness.
Troy University is mourning the loss of an alumnus who made history during his time as a student and provided a lifetime of dedicated leadership and support to his alma mater. Lamar P. Higgins, Vice President Pro Tempore of the University’s Board of Trustees and a 1981 TROY graduate, passed away on Thursday after an extended illness.
Higgins, 61, was first appointed to the University’s Board of Trustees in 1996, making him the board’s first African American member. During his tenure on the board, Higgins was instrumental in the planning and construction of the Rosa Parks Library and Museum on the University’s Montgomery Campus. A state-of-the-art conference room within the museum bears his name. He als
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Troy University is mourning the loss of an alumnus who made history during his time as a student and provided a lifetime of dedicated leadership and support to his alma mater. Lamar P. Higgins, Vice President Pro Tempore of the University’s Board of Trustees and a 1981 TROY graduate, passed away on Thursday after an extended illness.
Higgins, 61, was first appointed to the University’s Board of Trustees in 1996, making him the board’s first African American member. During his tenure on the board, Higgins was instrumental in the planning and construction of the Rosa Parks Library and Museum on the University’s Montgomery Campus. A state-of-the-art conference room within the museum bears his name. He also helped lead the effort to establish Rosa Parks Day in Alabama, and helped create legislation to erect statues of Mrs. Parks and Helen Keller on the State Capitol Grounds.
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