Lauretha Vaird Street Renaming

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In 1962- Jamiaca became an independent domininon within the British Commonwealth
In 1965- Voting Rights Act of 1965 enacted to eliminate racial discrimination in voting
In 2022- US Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Langley was promoted to the rank of general in a ceremony Saturday, becoming the first Black four-star general in the military branch's 246-year history
In 2022- General Michael E. Langley (born 1961/1962) is a United States Marine Corps general who serves as the commander of the United States Africa Command becomes the first African American to be promoted to 4-star General in the Marine Corps history

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe

Frederick Douglass