"If a friend calls you on the telephone and says they're lost on Martin Luther King Boulevard and they want to know what they should do, the best response is ‘Run!’"
Posted on 04/16/2016 4:30:58 PM PDT by bgill
Edited on 04/16/2016 6:18:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Signs are up officially renaming the street leading to Prairie View A&M University after Sandra Bland, the university graduate whose death in the Waller County jail last summer added to the national debate about treatment of minorities by law enforcement.
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Soon to be as lovely and safe as Martin Luther King Blvd.
Remember the Maine!
Remember Sandra Bland?
Why?
Not really?
How liberal is Prairie View these days to approve this renaming?
Soon to be as lovely and safe as Martin Luther King Blvd.
Probably a lot like Los Angeles, they renamed Brooklyn St to Martin Luther King Blvd. It is the Ghetto and extremely dangerous.
Santa Barbara Street became Martin Luther King Blvd. Macy Street and Brooklyn Avenue became Cesar Chavez Blvd.
There, fixed it for them...
You are right, not sure why I mixed those up, I used to live real close to it. Old AGe maybe, My Bad, either way they are both s%^tholes now. Actually they always have been for the most part.
A knee jerk reaction of the highest order.
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An historically black university built on a plantation...
Prairie View A&M University, the second oldest public institution of higher education in Texas, originated in the Texas Constitution of 1876. On August 14, 1876, the Texas Legislature established the “Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for Colored Youths” and placed responsibility for its management with the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Bryan. The A&M College of Texas for Colored Youths opened at Prairie View, Texas on March 11, 1878.
Enrollment of the First Students – 1878
The Board of Directors purchased the lands of the Alta Vista Plantation (1388 acres), from Mrs. Helen Marr Kirby, the widow of the late Col. Jared Ellison Kirby, for the establishment of the State Agriculture & Mechanical College of Texas for Colored Youth. The College was named “Alta Vista Agriculture & Mechanical College for Colored Youth”. The A&M Board of Directors was authorized to appoint a President of A&M College and Alta Vista College with an assigned principal station at Alta Vista to administer the college’s day to day affairs. Confederate President Jefferson Davis recommended Mr. Thomas S. Gathright of Mississippi, also from Mississippi and he brought Mr. L.W. Minor, of Mississippi to serve as Principal. Eight young African American men, the first of their race to enroll in a state-supported college in Texas, began their studies on March 11, 1878.
It is the home of Prairie View A&M a black university. I think Bland was starting a job there.
How about name it “Comply - Don’t Die AVE”?
I think I see a trend there.
Up in Amarillo even the black folk won’t march down MLK boulevard on MLK day.....:o)
No one will see em or care.....!!
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