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Springfield IL's Black Lives Matter chapter gets honorary street signs


The event was widely praised for its peacefulness and effectiveness.
Black Lives Matter got its national start in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Black teen Trayvon Martin a year and a half earlier. The movement got traction for its street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City.
Springfield Mayor Jim Langfelder is hoping to have Jackson Street from Capitol Avenue to the Lincoln Home area renamed Harry Marshall Avenue.
Currently, the honorary designation for Marshall covers the intersections of Jackson at Second, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, 11th and Elm streets; McCreery and Wheeler avenues; and Martin Luther King Drive. ....

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