Tommie Lee Wyatt

Rule Changes

Died in January 2026; the street was renamed in his honor in July 2026

Plantation Road in South Austin is now Tommie Lee Wyatt Lane. Crews put up the new signs on October 14, less than three months after the City Council voted to honor the co-founder and longtime publisher of The Villager, a newspaper that covered Black life in Austin.

Updated Oct 25