Steve's Soapbox

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

State Fair of Texas / Midway / Brownwood NAACP

This is interesting Brownwood Civil Rights History. Several years ago we tried to secure a memorialization of a local street in honor of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. This attempt was met with much opposition from several Influential Brownwoodians . Needless to say this attempt was "put to rest" by those "at the table" From our experience with this issue, the two most vocal opponents of this request came from former elected Brownwood Police Chief Joe Robbins and Bob Beadel..