New park to celebrate civil rights era in Mobile
Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 06:41PM "The Mobile City Council voted today to spend $684,000 to build a small park downtown that will represent Mobile's unique path through the civil rights era.
Unity Point Park will occupy a one-third-acre triangle between St. Anthony Street and Spring Hill Avenue just west of Broad Street.
The park will feature a fountain and statues of former Mayor Joseph Langan and civil rights leader John LeFlore
Langan and LeFlore worked together to advance the rights of black residents while keeping Mobile relatively free of race-based violence that plagued other Alabama cities in the 1950s and 1960s, city spokeswoman Barbara Drummond said.
"Those two people were credited with a type of harmonious partnership that has led Mobile to the place it is today," she said.
The money for the park is coming from Mayor Sam Jones' discretionary fund and the city's tax increment financing district fund." For more information, see Mobile to build new park celebrating civil rights era.
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