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'Ridiculous' bill would rename part of road from late civil rights leader to Donald Trump

by ADRIAN MOJICA | WZTV Staff

Fri, February 3rd 2023 at 3:07 PM

Pedestrians walk past a mural of Rep. John Lewis on a street named after him, Friday, Feb.11, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. The late Representative was part of a student movement that once marched downtown from the historically black neighborhood of North Nashville to take part in civil rights lunch counter sit-ins. That same neighborhood now being re-districted into a mostly white congressional district which some democrats are comparing to decades past civil rights violations. (AP Photo/John Amis)

FILE - In this March 4, 2012, file photo, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., center, talks with those gathered on the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge during the 19th annual reenactment of the "Bloody Sunday" Selma to Montgomery civil rights march across the bridge in Selma, Ala. The March 7, 2021, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will be the first without the towering presence of Lewis, as well as the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. C.T. Vivian and attorney Bruce Boynton, who all died in 2020. (AP Photo/Kevin Glackmeyer, File)

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Pedestrians walk past a mural of Rep. John Lewis on a street named after him, Friday, Feb.11, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. The late Representative was part of a student movement that once marched downtown from the historically black neighborhood of North Nashville to take part in civil rights lunch counter sit-ins. That same neighborhood now being re-districted into a mostly white congressional district which some democrats are comparing to decades past civil rights violations. (AP Photo/John Amis)

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — Two Republican lawmakers in Tennessee filed a bill that would change the name of part of a road that's named for a civil rights leader and former congressman.

Instead, that portion near the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville would be named after former President Donald J. Trump.

Sen. Frank Niceley, R-Strawberry Plains, Rep. Paul Sherrell, R-Sparta, sponsoredSB1407/HB1372 in the Tennessee General Assembly.

The bill would rename a portion of Rep. John Lewis Way in Nashville to President Donald Trump Boulevard.

The change would affect the portion of the road between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and James Robertson Parkway, near the State Capitol.

Rep. John Lewis participated in the Nashville sit-ins during the civil rights movement. He also served as a congressman from Georgia for more than 30 years, and died in 2020.

The bill has drawn some public criticism.

Nashville Councilwoman Zulfat Suara took to Twitter, Thursday night, writing,

OMG. I have to take a deep breath so as not to swear! What have [sic] this state become! Do some just wake up and propose the next thing that comes to mind. This is not how to govern. This is ridiculous. We are going to fight this. #GoodTrouble

On Friday, she called it "cruel."

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