Agent of change
By Christian McPhate
Published: 12 September 2015 11:36 PM
... High grass and weeds, overgrown trees and poison ivy masked the abandoned slave cemetery. Eroded stones and rocks marked many of the graves. Any remnants of loved ones leaving behind trinkets and flowers have long since vanished. Only the signs of cattle grazing among the forgotten graves remain.
“It was God who led us to this place,” recalled Hudspeth, taking a break from weed-eating behind his used furniture shop on the corner of Bonnie Brae and Oak streets.
Hudspeth opened the used furniture shop a couple of years ago. A jack-of-all-trades, he does a little bit of everything at his shop. He repairs old washers and dryers and resells them. Inside his shop, he also sells used bookshelves, dressers and grandfather clocks.
But he’s more than just a handyman. He’s one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Denton County. A former teacher, coach and school board member, Hudspeth is the president of the Denton County chapter of the NAACP and a gadfly who has spent more than 15 years protesting the downtown Denton memorial to Confederate soldiers ...
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