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City of Minneapolis Renames a Street After Its First Black Fire Captain, John Cheatham

The Minnesota Disability Justice Network, members of the community and Minneapolis City Council member Andrew Johnson have worked together to honor a

Minneapolis renames street after John Cheatham, city's 1st Black fire captain

Thursday, community leaders celebrated the official renaming of a Minneapolis street, which now honors the city's first Black fire captain.

Brooks: In Minneapolis, all roads lead away from Dight Avenue

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Disability activists petition Minneapolis to rename Dight Street due to ties to eugenics advocate

Photo: Metro Transit via Flickr. KSTP Created: June 22, 2021 12:00 PM The Minnesota Disability Justice Network is petitioning the city of Minneapolis to change the name of a local street name due to the historical figure s ties to ableism, the Third Reich and the eugenics movement. According to a news release, the organization has gotten more than 700 people to sign a petition to rename Dight Avenue in Minneapolis. The street is named after Charles Fremont Dight, a former professor at the University of Minnesota who was considered the leader of Minnesota s eugenics movement. Dight not only founded the Minnesota Eugenics society but actively pursued the same type of eugenics as Nazi scientists such as Josef Mengele. In 1933, Dight wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler praising the Third Reich s efforts to stamp out mental inferiority, the Minnesota Disability Justice Network said in a statement.

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