A visibly worn green-and-white street sign hangs to one side of an equally weathered utility pole in North Lubbock.
For nearly 20 years, just a little downstream from University Avenue in the Canyon Lakes System, it stood – and still stands – as a symbol of the community effort recognizing a civil rights leader and the farm laborers he labored to elevate.
The day this battered street sign was photographed; dark grey clouds covered the afternoon sky – dulling its appearance more than usual. The letters, deformed by the passage of time and the unrelenting West Texas winds, are still legible…