A task force made up of Bloomington and Indiana University representatives has suggested two new names for Jordan Avenue.
The Renaming Task Force recommends Eagleson Avenue for the city-owned section from Davis Street to 17 th Street. The university-owned section from 17 th Street to Fee Lane, also known as the Jordan Extension, would be Fuller Lane or Mattie Fuller Lane.
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The Eagleson family has been a prominent African American family in Bloomington for four generations. Mattie Fuller was a successful businesswoman and suffragist who made the donation that founded Bethel AME Church.
The IU Board of Trustees voted last October to remove the Jordan name from various campus locations. They had been named for former IU President David Starr Jordan, who had been at the forefront of the American eugenics’ movement that conflicts with the university’s fundamental values.
The recommendations will go to the Bloomington Plan Commission, the IU Naming Committee and the IU Board of Trustees, the groups responsible for formal renaming.
