Thy have to hide their racist past by committing more acts of race pandering which in itself is racist when the new names chosen in advance are always minority blacks in a nation of all equals
Renaming of Rt 7 DEMOCRAT Harry F Byrd Highway
The county says that the name of Leesburg Pike will be consistent throughout the county, except in Purcellville. There, the road will bear the name of Billy Pierce, an African American choreographer born in Purcellville.
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2022/04/loudoun-co-reaches-deal-on-renaming-route-7-in-purcellville/
So he danced and sang who no one knows about today and did serve during WW1, but the service in France in WW1 of WT Woodson means nothing to far leftist race pandering Democrats who must pander to race as political cowards to keep a black vote their losing because their failed policies hurt poor people first and most !
https://www.ctb.virginia.gov/resources/2022/june/res/6.pdf
"Thus far, no measures to implement the CTB’s March 15, 2022 renaming of Route 7 from Harry
Byrd Highway to Billy Pierce Memorial Pike within the Town of Purcellville have been
undertaken, nor have any costs been incurred.
According to Purcellville’s May 10, 2022 resolution, William Joseph Pierce was an African American choreographer, dancer and dance studio owner who has been credited with the
invention of the Black Bottom dance that became a national craze in the mid-1920’s.
Billy Pierce was born in Purcellville, Virginia on June 14, 1890. He attended Storer College and
Howard University. He served in World War I with the 8th Infantry Regiment of the Illinois
National Guard.
He started out as a journalist eventually writing for the Chicago Defender, the premier African
American newspaper of its time. He wrote about the arts but eventually left his typewriter for
the theater. He began as a dancer and trombonist in vaudeville and performed as a banjoist in
Dr. Diamond Dick’s Kickapoo Medicine Show on the Theater Owners Booking Association
circuit of black vaudeville theaters, which took him to New York City.
He opened a dance studio with Leonard Harper in one room on the top floor of the Navex
building where he doubled as an elevator operator. By 1929 his studio was the largest of its
kind. Oscar-winning actor Clifton Webb honed his dancing skills at Pierce’s studio where Mr.
Pierce developed the “Moaning Low” dance routine for Mr. Webb and Libby Holman for The
Little Show in 1931.
Along with Benny Rubin he did the choreography for the 1927 musical Half a Widow. He also
created “The Sugar Foot Strut” dance for the hit musical Rio Rita in 1927 and developed a show-
stopping routine for Norma Terris in the 1927 production of Show Boat and its 1932 revival. He
also choreographed the dances in the 1932 musical revue Walk a Little Faster.
Billy Pierce married Nona Stovall in 1927 and they had two children. His career was cut short
when passed away from mastoiditis in 1933 at the age of 42