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Little Rock Officials Weigh Renaming Confederate Boulevard (AR)
By CLAUDIA LAUER, ASSOCIATED PRESS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Sep 23, 2015, 1:31 AM ET
While only a short stretch of Confederate Boulevard remains, to some it is a glaring reminder of Little Rock's checkered racial past.
City officials are expected to consider a petition Thursday to rename the boulevard's last few blocks after one of the area's first black property owners. Coincidentally, the planning commission's vote comes 58 years to the day that 1,200 troops arrived to escort nine black students to their first day of class during the integration of Central High School ...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/rock-officials-weigh-renaming-confederate-boulevard-33966627