WASHINGTON — Two Pennsylvania state representatives joined forces this month to petition the federal government to rename a controversially named peak in the Alleghany Mountains.
Rep. Rosita Youngblood (D), who is the first African-American woman to hold a leadership position in the state’s general assembly, said she didn’t believe it when her granddaughter and son told her years ago about Negro Mountain.
“I said, ‘There is no such thing as Negro Mountain in Pennsylvania,’” she told The Huffington Post Monday.
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Though she hasn’t succeeded in changing the peak’s name just yet, Youngblood said the promise she made to her family is what fuels her fight.
“I think about [how] I made a commitment to my son and my granddaughter that I would get the name changed, and that’s why I’m still working on this,” she said. “It’s important that they see that we can make some changes here in Pennsylvania.”
