Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Dallas took a rough ride to get to César Chávez Boulevard

Article by: James Ragland/ The Dallas Morning News
12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, April 10, 2010

In the end, the long and bumpy road of city politics gave way to a smooth, if not seamless, transition: Dallas is now one of at least four Texas cities with a major street bearing the name of César Chávez.

Pretty soon, our neighbor to the west, Fort Worth, is expected to join Big D, Austin, El Paso and Lubbock by naming yet another prominent street after Chávez, the civil-rights icon and farm labor champion.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/jragland/stories/DN-ragland_11met.ART.State.Edition1.4ce7c90.html

(Posted by Michael Felix)

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