Thursday, November 24, 2005
JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) -- A group of residents asked to rename a street for the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks that is now called Tara Boulevard, after the plantation in "Gone With the Wind."
The group's leader, Bob Hartley, noted that Clayton County has changed from a mostly white area to a predominantly black Atlanta suburb, and letters requesting the change were sent to the county's legislative delegation and the county commission.
Commission Chairman Eldrin Bell says Parks' memory should be honored, but with something bigger than a road. Democratic State Sen. Valencia Seay also said some other project might be a better idea.
Parks is credited with sparking the modern civil rights movement in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., to a white man. She later moved to Detroit, where she died Oct. 24.
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