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This Shreveport street was critically important to the Civil Rights Movement

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Sprague Street was built on a patch of ground at least 30 feet lower than the rest of downtown Shreveport. In 1902 a controversy arose when the material used to pave Sprague Street in the bottoms was strongly questioned. Sam Cooke was charged with disturbing the peace by attempting to stay at a white hotel in 1963. The old neighborhood name has been replaced with Ledbetter Heights.

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This Shreveport street was critically important to the Civil Rights Movement

If the walls of Sprague Street in Shreveport could talk, what a story they would tell. Some would speak of the Civil Rights movement, of segregation, and of the 1100 block of Sprague Street's slow descent from prosperity into posterity.

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