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State lawmakers urge federal government to remove the term "Negro" from Texas place names


State lawmakers urge federal government to remove the term “Negro” from Texas place names
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The state Capitol on Jan. 12, 2021.
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Texas lawmakers are asking the federal government to remove the term “Negro” from dozens of places across the state where the word appears in the location’s name.
The move by the Legislature comes three decades after Texas passed a law that was supposed to rename the places after Black Americans
who made a significant contribution to Texas. But the U.S. Board for Geographic Names, the federal entity with the final say over any natural place name in the country, blocked the changes, saying there was a lack of demonstrated local support for the proposed new names or opposition to current ones. ....

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Texas Legislature calls for "Negro" to be removed from state place names


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Texas lawmakers are asking the federal government to remove the term “Negro” from dozens of places across the state where the word appears in the location’s name.
The move by the Legislature comes three decades after Texas passed a law that was supposed to rename the places after Black Americans
who made a “significant contribution” to Texas. But the U.S. Board for Geographic Names, the federal entity with the final say over any natural place name in the country, blocked the changes, saying there was a lack of demonstrated local support for the proposed new names or opposition to current ones. ....

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State lawmakers urge federal government to remove the term 'Negro' from Texas place names


State lawmakers urge federal government to remove the term Negro from Texas place names
Reese Oxner, The Texas Tribune
May 25, 2021
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The Texas flag flies over the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News/TNS)Tom Fox, MBR / TNS
Texas lawmakers are asking the federal government to remove the term “Negro” from dozens of places across the state where the word appears in the location’s name.
The move by the Legislature comes three decades after Texas passed a law that was supposed to rename the places after Black Americans
 who made a significant contribution to Texas. But the U.S. Board for Geographic Names, the federal entity with the final say over any natural place name in the country, blocked the changes, saying there was a lack of demonstrated local support for the proposed new names or opposition to current ones. ....

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Group shames San Antonio's Whataburger and USAA for silence on controversial Texas voting bill


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USAA s logo is emblazoned on a window of its sprawling corporate campus. A coalition of voting-rights advocates included Alamo City-based Whataburger and USAA on a list of corporations it accuses of remaining silent as the Texas Legislature readies to pass a controversial bill restricting voting access.
Texas Right to Vote s list identifies more than 100 corporations most headquartered in the Lone Star State by whether they have issued public statements condemning Senate Bill 7. Neither Whataburger nor USAA responded to the
Current s request for comment on their inclusion on the list. ....

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