{"id":80251,"date":"2020-10-02T00:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T21:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/two-brooklyn-subway-stations-renamed-after-medgar-evers\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T00:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T21:41:20","slug":"two-brooklyn-subway-stations-renamed-after-medgar-evers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/two-brooklyn-subway-stations-renamed-after-medgar-evers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Two Brooklyn subway stations renamed after Medgar Evers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Two Brooklyn subway stations renamed after Medgar Evers<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Evers8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        Two Crown Heights subway stations now bear the name of civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, the namesake of a nearby college and prep school.<\/p>\n<p>MTA leaders and politicians officially tacked on \u201cMedgar Evers College\u201d to the names of the Franklin Avenue and President Street stops on Thursday, following through on state legislation passed earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The two stations are now called \u201cFranklin Avenue-Medgar Evers College\u201d and \u201cPresident Street-Medgar Evers College.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore there was a Breonna Taylor, before there was an Eric Garner, before there was a George Floyd, there was Medgar Evers,\u201d bill co-sponsor state Sen. Zelnor Myrie (D-Brooklyn) said during a press conference Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Evers, a leader in the Mississippi NAACP, was shot dead in his driveway by a white supremacist on June 12, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders founded Medgar Evers college seven years later to serve the predominantly-black Central Brooklyn community.<\/p>\n<p><!--If the slideshow is embedded in another post type add the inline wrapper --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you grew up in this neighborhood\u2026 you either went to Medgar Evers, you know somebody that went to Medgar Evers, you went to a program that Medgar Evers sponsored,\u201d Myrie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited, because it will remind us who have been here, but it will be a lesson to those who are coming in, that when you traverse these blocks, make sure you pay respect or our OGs.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/01\/two-brooklyn-subway-stations-renamed-after-medgar-evers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Two Brooklyn subway stations renamed after Medgar Evers&#8221; Two Crown Heights subway stations now bear the name of civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, the namesake of a nearby college and prep school. 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