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A fight over Jim Crow Road divides rural Northern California town Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times May 31, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Downieville, California, United States, North AmericaEmily Riddell/Getty Images/Lonely Planet Images LOS ANGELES, Calif. — As the story goes, a Native Hawaiian man came as a Gold Rush pioneer to a mountainous swath of Sierra County to strike it rich. His name was given to a ravine, a stream and a street off scenic Highway 49, three miles east of Downieville, Calif. That’s how Jim Crow Canyon, Jim Crow Creek and Jim Crow Road came to be. Generations later, p...

There is some doubt about the claim that a Native Hawaiian who came to the region was really called Jim Crow.

Supporters of changing the street's name say it evokes the racist laws that kept Black people segregated in the American South. Opponents call the proposed name change "woke cancel culture" run amok.