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MOAB, Utah — The NAACP in Salt Lake City responded Thursday after the U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted to rename Negro Bill Canyon. The recreation area northeast of Moab will now be known as ...
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Little is known about William Grandstaff other than the color of his skin and the derogatory nickname Moab locals once gave him. Even the spelling of his last name is in dispute 136 years after the ...
SALT LAKE CITY — After years of debate, a U.S. government board has voted to rename Utah’s Negro Bill Canyon, overruling a recommendation by Utah officials to keep the name. The U.S. Board on ...
William Grandstaff settled in what is now Grand County in the 1870s, running cattle up an oasis-like side canyon of the Colorado River. That canyon later was named in his memory, but the black cowboy ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After years of debate, a U.S. government board has voted to rename Utah”s Negro Bill Canyon, overruling a recommendation by Utah officials to keep the name. The U.S. Board on ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After years of debate, a U.S. government board has voted to rename Utah’s Negro Bill Canyon, overruling a recommendation by Utah officials to keep the name. The U.S. Board on ...
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