A stretch of Davie Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale has been renamed after Rubin Stacy, who was lynched on the street back in 1935. NBC 6’s Julie Leonardi reports
The City of Fort Lauderdale memorialized the victim of a 1935 lynching with a street renaming Tuesday.
A section of Davie Boulevard between Interstate 95 and U.S 441 was renamed “Rubin Stacy Memorial Boulevard" during a ceremony.
Stacy was around 29 years old when he was lynched in Fort Lauderdale on July 19, 1935.
City officials said Stacy never received legal counsel or a trial after a white woman alleged that he had threatened her.
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No one was ever charged in the lynching.
