A student displays a banner with one of the slogans chanted by the crowd of some 200,000 pouring into Tiananmen Square in Beijing on April 22, 1989. Catherine Henriette /AFP/Getty Images
WASHINGTON—U.S. lawmakers are introducing legislation to rename the street next to the Chinese Embassy in Washington in memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, a bloody chapter in modern Chinese history that the communist regime has tried to erase.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is introducing the legislation on June 4, the 37th anniversary of the 1989 massacre. A companion bill will be introduced in the House by Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.).
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