Jim Crow Road name is under fire, but history suggests something other than racism - Gainesville Times

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Jim Crow Road name is under fire, but history suggests something other than racism

A petition is circulating to rename South Hall’s Jim Crow Road, which has no relation to the segregationist South, but rather traces its history to a man who was a community leader. The Flowery Branch City Council voted July 2 to change the name for the portion of the road within the city limits to G.C. Crow Road. - photo by Jeff Gill

06272020 CROW 5.jpg — A petition is circulating to rename South Hall’s Jim Crow Road, which has no relation to the segregationist South, but rather traces its history to a man who was a community leader. The Flowery Branch City Council voted July 2 to change the name for the portion of the road within the city limits to G.C. Crow Road. - photo by Jeff Gill

From Glennon C. “Jim” Crow’s helping Black and white neighbors alike in the early 1930s to the old Crow homeplace serving as a federal hospital during the Civil War, Jim Crow Road would seem the perfect name for the road connecting McEver Road to Lake Lanier.