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On the second day of Black History Month, Lane County commissioners unanimously approved a resolution that acknowledges the destruction of Lane County’s first Black neighborhood, commits county public works projects to follow the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and memorializes the history of the Ferry Street Village.  At the Feb. 2 Lane County Board of County Commissioners’ meeting, Director of Public Works Dan Hurley presented the item to commissioners, prefacing that he has lived in the area for most of his life but hadn’t heard of the bulldozing of the Ferry Street Village until a co-worker shared the article “Civic Unity Comes to Lane County” by Mike Wolfe, published in the

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