Courtesy City of Fort Worth
Reby Cary
The City of Fort Worth will unveil the signage of the Reby Cary Memorial Street this Saturday at 5950 Plaza Circle at Bunche Drive near the intersection of East Rosedale Street and East Loop 820 in the Historic Carver Heights neighborhood.
The new Reby Cary Memorial Street will be what is currently the innocuously named Plaza Circle.
The street’s new namesake, Reby Cary, was an educator and historian who was the first Black instructor at both Tarrant County Junior College and University of Texas at Arlington and served as the first Black Fort Worth ISD school board member. He later served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985.
Remarks and the unveiling of the street sign will begin at 9 a.m.
Last year, the city of Fort Worth named its newest library — one designed specifically for children — after Cary. The $3.25 million project is a 8,122-square-foot space funded by the 2014 bond approved by voters.
According to an obituary first published in the Fort Worth Business Press, outside of the arena of education and politics, Cary also owned his own real estate company, Cary Real Estate, and found time to author seven books on African-Americans in Texas. Cary died in 2018 at the age of 98.
