Atlanta To Change Names Of Streets That Honored Confederacy
The city's mayor signed a bill renaming three streets. Many local governments have taken similar measures in the wake of last year's white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Atlanta is changing the names of three streets that echo the city's Civil War past.
Confederate Avenue will become United Avenue, East Confederate Avenue will become United Avenue S.E. and Confederate Court will become Trestletree Court on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
"For our community to trulyafter signing a bill ordering the name changes. "The imagery and symbolism of these names and monuments represent systematic injustice, persecution and cruelty. That is not who we are as a city."
