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STONE MOUNTAIN ^
City renames street to honor community leaders
BY CARLA PARKER
carla@dekalbchamp.com
Stone Mountain City
Council voted to rename
Venable Street Eva Mamie
Lane at its Nov. 7 regular
meeting.
The new street name
honors the late Eva Jewel
Greene and her daughter
Mamie Ella Lane. Residents
petitioned to have the street
renamed to recognize Greene’s
and Lane’s work in Stone
Mountain.
Greene was a founder of
DeKalb Economic Opportunity
Authority in 1966 and served
as the authority’s director and
community organizer for three
decades. She also founded
Stone Mountain Negro Civic
League and served as its
president for more than 20
years.
Lane founded House
of Bethel Church in 1963.
The church had an outreach
ministry that clothed, fed
and educated children in the
community. In 1974, Green
and Lane co-founded Georgia
Citizens Coalition on Hunger.
Greene died Jan. 1, 2006, and
Lane died on Feb. 2.
Venable Street is named
after former Stone Mountain
mayor James Venable, who
organized and was the Imperial
Wizard of the National Knights
of the Klan. According
to residents, Venable led
marches and held rallies in
Shermantown from the 1960s
through 1980s promoting racial
hatred and intolerance, inciting
fear in the community.
Venable Street is named after former Stone Mountain mayor James Venable, who organized and was the imperial
wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. File Photo
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