TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - Part of a major Tallahassee road is now named after a well-known civil rights leader.
Thanks to a new state law effective July 1, a stretch of Orange Avenue is now designated as C.K. Steele Memorial Highway.
Reverend Charles Kenzie Steele was one of the driving forces behind the Tallahassee Bus Boycott that started in 1956. He worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to organize the 'Southern Christian Leadership Conference'.
The NAACP's Tallahassee branch says honoring Steele is a "great representation" of the fight for civil rights here.
“Tallahassee was one of the cities in the South that was a watershed during the civil rights movement, and so, to put C.K. Steele's name up, it is not only a recognition of his services and sacrifices, but of those whose names have not been spoken,”Delaitre Hollinger, the president of the NAACP Tallahassee Branch.
The designation on Orange Avenue stretches from South Monroe Street to Capital Circle Southwest. An official ceremony to unveil new road markers is in the works.
