City attempts white out during Clinton festivities

[ChoralScholar]

'Little Rock changes Confederate Boulevard sign in attempt to distance itself from racial strife'

From the Log Cabin Democrat (Conway, Arkansas)

http://www.thecabin.net/stories/113004/loc_1130040005.shtml

LITTLE ROCK - Seeking to distance itself from a checkered racial past, Little Rock erased "Confederate Blvd." from interstate highway signs just weeks before dignitaries arrived for the opening of Bill Clinton's presidential library.

The Confederate Boulevard signs had been the first landmarks many saw after landing at the city's airport. And while the boulevard still runs north from Interstate 440, signs for Exit 1 now tout a southbound stretch of the same road named "Springer Blvd.," which honors black community leader Horace Springer and his family.

"We did have an incredibly significant event that was occurring here, and that was something that was bothersome," said Mayor Jim Dailey, whose city, until Clinton, was best known for the Central High School desegregation crisis of 1957. "We have a city that is in every way trying to dispel those things that divide us."

He said the national and international visitors coming to the library opening probably moved the city to take more definitive action.

ON EDIT: Damn, I knew I was forgetting something!! :) Added link.

[LaPera]

1. Link, please.

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Hmm...that's kind of like clearing the homeless off the streets

just before the Super Bowl or the Olympics. Arkansas should make it permanent and throw them in some museum or something.

[Love Bug]

3. If it is "bothersome" during special events,

then why isn't it "bothersome" the rest of the time?