Bloomington may rename Jordan Avenue for people born into slavery

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) — City officials and Indiana University leaders person revealed the caller names for Jordan Avenue.

A task unit submitted its recommendations aft spending months reviewing hundreds of names. The radical projected Eagleson Avenue for the conception of roadworthy betwixt 17th and Davis streets, according to a quality merchandise from Yaël Ksander, the city’s communications director. The agelong from Fee Lane to 17th would beryllium called Fuller Lane oregon Mattie Fuller Lane.

Both names grant radical who were calved into slavery and went connected to marque important contributions to the metropolis oregon university.

The merchandise said, “The archetypal sanction proposal honors the Eagleson family, a salient Bloomington household for 4 generations whose members person made important contributions to the city, university, state, and nation, starting with Halson Vashon Eagleson (1851-1921), who was calved into slavery and came to Bloomington successful the 1880s. The 2nd projected sanction honors Mattie Jacobs Fuller (1856-1940), who, aft being calved into slavery successful Kentucky, became astatine property 4 a lifelong nonmigratory of Bloomington, wherever she was a palmy concern pistillate and suffragist, and made the donation that founded Bethel AME Church.”

In 2020, IU stripped erstwhile schoolhouse president David Jordan’s sanction from field implicit his promotion of the eugenics theory.

The metropolis program committee volition person to o.k. the names. Once approved, the metropolis volition enactment with spot owners on the renamed avenue and lane, and with the U.S. Postal Service, exigency work providers and others affected by the change.