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COURIER L 38 IFE, OCT. 9-15, 2020
BY BEN VERDE
City transit offi cials
have offi cially renamed
two Crown Heights subway
stations after civil
rights icon Medgar Evers
and the nearby CUNY
college campus bearing
the anti-segregationist’s
name.
Franklin Avenue station
along Eastern Parkway
will now be known
as “Franklin Avenue-
Medgar Evers College”
station, while President
Street station along Nostrand
Avenue will henceforth
don signs reading
“President Street-Medgar
Evers College.”
The new signage
marks a rare name
change within the 472-station
subway system, and
makes the two train depots
among the few bearing
a person’s fi rst and
last name, said one city
transportation honcho.
“You don’t just go
around renaming subway
stations every day
or it loses what’s important
about it,” New York
City Transit President
Sarah Feinberg said on
Thursday. “Honoring
Medgar Evers College
and Medgar Evers the
man are two genuinely
great reasons.”
The name change
came as a result of a bill
introduced in the state
legislature by a trio of
central Brooklyn pols —
State Sen. Zellnor Myrie,
Assemblywoman Diana
Richardson, and Assemblyman
Walter Mosley
— and was funded by a
$250,000 legislative grant
from Albany’s lower
chamber reps.
Mosley hailed the homage
to Evers, highlighting
the importance of having
positive role models
prominently displayed in
the community for Brooklynites
to revere.
“How do we create
positive impacts and images
for people young
and old to be positively
socially conditioned during
a time in which negativity
has been normalized?”
he said.
Evers was a civil rights
activist in Mississippi
who fought segregation
in his home state while
registering Black Mississippians
to vote during
the 1950s and 1960s, until
he was assassinated in
his driveway by a white
supremacist in 1963.
Borough President
Eric Adams chimed in
on Thursday to recognize
Evers’ contribution
to the equality of Black
Americans, saying that
he and other successful
African Americas
couldn’t have reached
their potential without
the civil rights hero.
“There’s no President
Obama, or Borough President
Adams, without Medgar
Evers,” the beep wrote
on Twitter. “Acknowledging
the pioneering work
of our civil rights foremothers
and forefathers,
who carried the baton for
social justice in some of
our hardest days, lifts up
our underground.”
Medgar Evers College
was founded in 1970
through the collaboration
of central Brooklyn
community groups, and
currently serves around
6,700 students as one of
25 CUNY campuses. The
school is also recognized
as a historically Black
college — one of the only
such educational institutions
in New York State.
“Having our name
on these stations serves
as a tangible representation
of the role that this
institution plays in the
academic and cultural
fabric of this community
and will serve as a great
source of pride to our
students, faculty, and
alumni throughout New
York City,” said Medgar
Evers College President
Rudy Crew.
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