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The Emperor's Bridge Campaign is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to honor the life and advance the legacy of the 19th-century San Francisco eccentric Joshua Abraham Norton (c.1818 – 1880), known as Emperor Norton. The San Francisco-based Campaign was launched on 28 September 2013 as a project to carry forward the call of a 1 August 2013 Change.org petition to name the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge — long known locally simply as "the Bay Bridge" — for Emperor Norton, who set out the original vision for the bridge with three newspaper proclamations published in 1872. In the succeeding months, the Campaign has positioned this bridge-naming project within a larger historical-educational mission that includes research, documentation and public education about the full life and legacy of Emperor Norton. The Campaign incorporated in October 2014 and is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation. ==Background== In June 2013, a resolution was introduced in the California State Assembly to name the Western crossing of the state-owned San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge — the section from San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island — for former Assembly Speaker and former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown.〔Wyatt Buchanan, ("Bay Bridge May Carry Willie Brown's Name," ) ''San Francisco Chronicle'', June 13, 2013.〕 A few weeks later, San Francisco-based writer John Lumea wrote and published a Change.org petition calling for the entire Bay Bridge, from San Francisco to Oakland, to be named for Emperor Norton, who in 1872 — with three proclamations published in the black-owned abolitionist weekly ''The Pacific Appeal'' — called for a bay-spanning suspension bridge linking San Francisco and Oakland via Goat Island, the present-day Yerba Buena Island.〔The Emperor's Bridge Campaign, ("Bridge Proclamations," ) EmperorsBridge.org.〕 (The petition's call is an echo of an earlier, 2004 effort in which then-San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin introduced a resolution to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors calling for the Bay Bridge to be named for Emperor Norton. Ultimately, the resolution passed by the Board called for only the bridge's new Eastern crossing — the Oakland-facing side, then in the early planning stages — to be named for Emperor Norton. This suggestion was not well-received by the Oakland City Council, and the idea went no further.) In the six weeks from the launch of the Change.org petition until the final California State Senate vote approving the resolution naming the Bay Bridge's Western crossing for Willie Brown, the petition attracted 3,800 signatures. It also received media coverage from the San Francisco Chronicle,〔Debra J. Saunders, ("Willie Brown Bay Bridge — Whether You Like It or Not" ), ''San Francisco Chronicle'', 10 September 2013.〕〔Carolyn Said, ("Wide Range of Causes Use Online Petitions" ) ''San Francisco Chronicle'', 10 October 2013.〕 San Francisco Bay Guardian,〔Justin Slaughter, ("Petition to name Bay Bridge after Emperor Norton gains 1,000 signatures" ), ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'', 13 August 2013.〕〔Editorial, ("Forget the Willie Brown Bridge" ), San Francisco Bay Guardian, 9 September 2013.〕 KQED (Bay Area NPR affiliate),〔Dan Brekke, ("Bay Bridge? Willie Brown Bridge? Fight Over Span's Name Erupts" ), KQED, 13 September 2013.〕 SFist,〔Andrew Dalton, ("Effort To Rename Bay Bridge After Emperor Norton Revived By Online Petition" ), ''SFist'', 6 August 2013.〕〔Andrew Dalton, ("The Willie Brown Bridge Must Be Stopped," ) ''SFist'', 5 September 2013.〕〔Andrew Dalton, ("The Willie Brown Bridge Is Moving Forward Despite Growing Opposition, Common Sense", ) ''SFist'', 11 September 2012.〕 Laughing Squid,〔EDW Lynch, ("Petition Calls for San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge To Be Named After Emperor Norton" ), ''Laughing Squid'', 7 August 2013.〕 San Jose Mercury News〔Martin Snapp, ("Move Afoot to Honor Historic S.F. Eccentric" ), ''San Jose Mercury News'', 21 August 2013.〕〔Mike Rosenberg, ("Bay Bridge Span, Against Gov. Jerry Brown's Wishes, Set to be Renamed ), ''San Jose Mercury News,'' 10 September 2013.〕 and the Los Angeles Times,〔Anthony York, ("Gov. Jerry Brown Opposes Bid to Name Bay Bridge after Willie Brown" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', 11 September 2013.〕 among others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Emperor's Bridge Campaign」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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