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To designate the 2900 block of Northumberland Avenue in honor of the late Eleanor Redd Binford. (3rd District)
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WHEREAS, upon information and belief of the Council, Eleanor Redd Binford was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1933 and passed away in Richmond on July 28, 2023; and
WHEREAS, upon information and belief of the Council, Eleanor Redd Binford, as a high school student in Fredericksburg, was among 27 seniors at Walker-Grant High School who led one of the first civil rights protests, in that community and Virginia, to decry the decision of the city's Dorothy Hart Community Center to block the Class of 1950 from holding their graduation ceremony there on the basis of race, a protest that was saluted many years later in Fredericksburg by the placement of a panel in front of the center, still in use today; and
WHEREAS, upon information and belief of the Council, Eleanor Redd Binford graduated from Virginia Union University in 1958, and began a teaching career in Richmond, during which she later earned a master's degree from Virginia Commonwealth University; and
WHEREAS, upon information and belief of the Council, Eleanor Redd Binford taught in Richmond Public Schools, including Albert V. Norrell Elementary School, John B. Cary (now Lois Harrison-Jones) Elementary School, and Bellevue Elementary School, where she not only taught academics for 35 years but also the importance of dignity, decorum, poise, gentility, and manners, for which she became so successful that she was named on Ebony magazine's list of America's best Black teachers; and
WHEREAS, upon information and belief of the Council, Eleanor Redd Binford was active in many Virginia Union University alumni groups, including the Panther 100 club and various national organizations for graduates as well as being a member of the Upsilon Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and
WHEREAS, the City desires to memorialize the life of Eleanor Redd Bin...
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