Alexandria will rededicate a West End street this weekend that was named after a Confederate leader more than 70 years ago.
On Saturday (July 11), Mayor Alyia Gaskins will help rededicate Stevens Street as Moses Stevens Street for a Black entrepreneur who founded Mount Jezreel Baptist Church. Since 1953, the street was named after either Confederate Brigadier Gen. Clement Hoffman Stevens or Confederate Brigadier Gen. Walter Husted Stevens, the chief engineer of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The event will be held from 10-11 a.m. at the Alexandria Black History Museum (902 Wythe Street) and will include comments from Gaskins, members of the Stevens family, genealogist Char Bah and Del. Gretchen Bulova (D-11), who is also the director of the Office of Historic Alexandria…