Alternate Dallas Street Map - Nuevo Benin
This map is under construction and will be updated as we progress and discover new names to be put on the street map for Dallas and names that need to be be replaced. The goal is 101 new street names.
Which particular street will be given which particular name isn't fixed. All these street name assignments are tentative. They are to allow the imagining a different Dallas.
Finally, for candidates the restriction is that they are either dead or very much retired. There is a preference for heroes, leaders, achievers, and martyrs, but less for those who were merely victims.
Information for the streets will be after the map.
Which particular street will be given which particular name isn't fixed. All these street name assignments are tentative. They are to allow the imagining a different Dallas.
Finally, for candidates the restriction is that they are either dead or very much retired. There is a preference for heroes, leaders, achievers, and martyrs, but less for those who were merely victims.
Information for the streets will be after the map.
1. Marvin Crenshaw was part of the court case which brought single district elections to Dallas. His name would replace Marilla named after Confederate Young's mother. The history of the name origin of Marilla St. and other Dallas streets is in a paper at this web page. templeofdemocracy.com/young-street.html
2. Botham Jean was shot by Amber Guyger when she burst in unannounced into his apartment and shot him. So far only a part of South Lamar has been named after him, and there is a program underway to name the rest of South Lamar and all of North Lamar after him. The campaign to change the name as well as who Mirabeau Lamar was is at these two pages.
templeofdemocracy.com/lamar-street-old.html
templeofdemocracy.com/lamar-street-new.html
3. Nelson Mandela was a leader in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. There is a bad habit of the City of Dallas to contain the streets renamed after civil rights leaders in minority neighborhoods. It would do good for people outside African American neighborhoods see that non-white people are honored on the landscape, so that is why Preston was selected.
4. Fahin Minka was an African American activist in Dallas and his name would replace Ledbetter. The link is to a D Magazine article about his work for the community.
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1991/april/war-in-the-streets
5. Dolores Huerta was a Mexican American civil rights activist and would replace Tyler.
6. Roy H. Williams was a plantiff in the court case which brought single district elections to Dallas. His name would replace Royal named after Royal Ferris. Ferris wrote a letter to Hampton W. Sumners praising Sumners efforts to defeat the 1922 Dyers Federal Anti-Lynching Bill.
7. Huey P. Newton was the leader of the Black Panthers and the name would replace Keist.
8. David Fagen during the Philippine Insurrection in which the United States carried a monstrous murderous campaign against the Filipinos defected to the Phillipine side in their war for Independence. This webpage shows how the Dallas Morning News reported the murderous campaign against the Filipinos. templeofdemocracy.com/philippines-insurrection.html
2. Botham Jean was shot by Amber Guyger when she burst in unannounced into his apartment and shot him. So far only a part of South Lamar has been named after him, and there is a program underway to name the rest of South Lamar and all of North Lamar after him. The campaign to change the name as well as who Mirabeau Lamar was is at these two pages.
templeofdemocracy.com/lamar-street-old.html
templeofdemocracy.com/lamar-street-new.html
3. Nelson Mandela was a leader in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. There is a bad habit of the City of Dallas to contain the streets renamed after civil rights leaders in minority neighborhoods. It would do good for people outside African American neighborhoods see that non-white people are honored on the landscape, so that is why Preston was selected.
4. Fahin Minka was an African American activist in Dallas and his name would replace Ledbetter. The link is to a D Magazine article about his work for the community.
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1991/april/war-in-the-streets
5. Dolores Huerta was a Mexican American civil rights activist and would replace Tyler.
6. Roy H. Williams was a plantiff in the court case which brought single district elections to Dallas. His name would replace Royal named after Royal Ferris. Ferris wrote a letter to Hampton W. Sumners praising Sumners efforts to defeat the 1922 Dyers Federal Anti-Lynching Bill.
7. Huey P. Newton was the leader of the Black Panthers and the name would replace Keist.
8. David Fagen during the Philippine Insurrection in which the United States carried a monstrous murderous campaign against the Filipinos defected to the Phillipine side in their war for Independence. This webpage shows how the Dallas Morning News reported the murderous campaign against the Filipinos. templeofdemocracy.com/philippines-insurrection.html