NAACP supports keeping the name ‘Negro Bill Canyon’ (UT)

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By PAUL ROLLY | The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published 3 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago

... Jeanetta Williams, tri-state conference president of the NAACP for Utah, Idaho and Nevada, argues the word is not pejorative and that removing it would assign a negative connotation to a word that remains in the title of several prominent civil-rights organizations ...

Williams also said it is important that the canyon stay true to its historical roots.

It is named after William Grandstaff, who McGann noted never went by Bill. He was a mixed-race cowboy who prospected and ran cattle in the canyon in the late 1870s. Historical accounts say he was chased out for bootlegging whiskey to area Indians. Many believe residents trumped up those charges so they could get his cattle.

The canyon's original name used the decidedly offensive n-word, but that changed in the 1960s — with the NAACP's support ...

http://www.sltrib.com/news/2762430-155/rolly-look-who-supports-keeping-the

[Igel]

1. McGann would have a fit over Blind Boy Fuller, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Boy_Fuller


Me thinks she doth protest too much.