As the story goes, a Native Hawaiian man came as a Gold Rush pioneer to a mountainous swath of Sierra County to strike it rich.
His name was given to a ravine, a stream and a street off scenic Highway 49, three miles east of Downieville, Calif. That’s how Jim Crow Canyon, Jim Crow Creek and Jim Crow Road came to be.
Generations later, people who own property along the less-than-a-mile-long road, including a small mountain resort, say that Jim Crow has got to go.
In April, their pleas sparked a proposal before the Sierra County Board of Supervisors to consider renaming the road.
Monday, May 31, 2021
Jim Crow in rural California?
The Los Angeles Times Brittany Mejia reports today from Sierra County, California, population 3,240, under the headline "A fight over Jim Crow Road divides rural Northern California town." Here's the lede, out of Downieville, population 2,966:
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