Social Justice
Texas street where Sandra Bland was arrested is renamed after her
University Boulevard will be renamed to Sandra Bland Parkway
The Prairie View City Council has voted to rename University Boulevard to Sandra Bland Parkway. The road leads to Prairie View’s campus and is the same road on which Bland was stopped and arrested.
Sandra Bland Parkway
According to ABC 13, hundreds of Prairie View A&M alumni gathered with current students to march from the student-union building to the site where Bland was stopped and arrested. The march ended at City Hall, where council members agreed to change the street name.
“If every time they pull over a student, they have to be reminded of what took place here. Then that will help the relationship to be more respectful between the officers and the students,” protester Hannah Bonner told the news station.
Death
Bland had moved back to Texas in July to take a job with her alma mater. On July 10, a traffic stop ended in Bland’s arrest. Jail officials claim a few days later she died by suicide by hanging herself in her Waller County cell.
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