Fifty years after the death of the first African-American FBI special agent killed in the line of duty, a street in Edwin R. Woodriffe’s native Brooklyn, New York, has been renamed in his honor.

Special Agents Woodriffe and Anthony Palmisano were shot and killed in 1969 while trying to arrest an escaped fugitive in Washington, D.C.

Decades later, Woodriffe’s daughter, Lee Ann Woodriffe, lobbied local officials in New York to recognize her father’s sacrifice by co-naming the street. The sign honoring his sacrifice now sits at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Claver Place in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, near the church where Woodriffe had served as an altar boy and where his funeral was held.