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FILE - This April 20, 2017, file photo shows the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge at sunset in Savannah, Ga. Hundreds of Girl Scouts are expected to gather in the Georgia Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, offering milk and cookies as they try to persuade lawmakers to get their founder’s name affixed to the bridge that’s currently named after a white segregationist. (AP Photo/Sally Hale, File)

Girl Scouts lobby to relabel bridge named for segregationist

By R.J. RICO - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 28, 2017 file photo shows the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge over the Savannah river, in Savannah, Ga. The Girl Scouts have hired a lobbyist, met with the governor and made plans for a milk-and-cookies reception for Georgia lawmakers as they try to get a Savannah bridge renamed for Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low. Sue Else of the Girls Scouts of Historic Georgia says up to 300 scouts will visit the state Capitol in February 2018 to meet with lawmakers about the bridge. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

Girl Scouts join fight over bridge named for segregationist

By RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press

FILE- This file photo from 1933 shows Georgia Gov. Eugene Talmadge in Atlanta. A populist Democrat who stoked fierce loyalty among rural whites in the 1930s and '40s, Gov. Talmadge unflinchingly defended segregation in Georgia. Now city officials in Savannah plan to vote on a resolution urging state lawmakers to remove Talmadge's name from the towering suspension bridge that spans the Savannah River. (AP Photo)

Savannah wants segregationist governor’s name off bridge

By RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press