The corner of South 45th Street and Varble Avenue in the Chickasaw neighborhood was dedicated as "Raoul Cunningham Way, Louisville's NAACP Leader" during a ceremony.
The local NAACP had been represented on the West End Opportunity Partnership since its inception in 2021.
Senate Bill 259 exposed tensions between the Louisville NAACP and the leadership of the West End Opportunity Partnership, the agency overseeing public tax subsidies in the city's West End.
The NAACP said minority students are suffering because of a crisis in district leadership.
Senate Bill 259 was backed by the leadership of the partnership, which will oversee investments from a public subsidy in western Louisville called tax increment financing.
Senate Bill 259 has exposed divisions on the board of directors of the West End Opportunity Partnership, which will manage revenue from a tax subsidy district in the city's western neighborhoods.
SB 259 would require the NAACP and six other organizations to propose more than one candidate when vacancies occur on the West End Opportunity Partnership board and put those entities at risk of losing their board seats if they refuse.
The Louisville civil rights league claims the group overseeing a tax increment financing district has tried to remove its representative from the West End board.
On Aug. 28, 1963, a crowd of an estimated 250,000 people joined the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Raoul Cunningham said he is concerned the mayor is not fulfilling the promise of transparency he campaigned on.