Hispanic leaders press for Chávez name – Dallas From: dallasnews.com
Tagged: cesar chavez, Dallas, latin america, LULAC, TexasPosted on: June 17th, 2008
Dallas Hispanic leaders said Monday they had formed a task force to support renaming Industrial Boulevard to César Chávez Boulevard.
Members of the League of United Latin American Citizens and other Hispanic leaders said they plan to press city officials to honor a city-sponsored online and telephone poll in which the majority chose César Chávez Boulevard as Industrial’s new name.
“They don’t want to recognize the real culture in Dallas,” Alberto Ruiz, chairman of the task force, said of some city officials. “They want a bland, generic, noninspiring name to overshadow the cultural reality of this city which is very Mexican and very American.”
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