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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 05:58 PM Sep 2015

LR Planning Commission supports Confederate Boulevard name change (AR)

Brandon Riddle
published today at 3:44 p.m.

The Little Rock Planning Commission voted Thursday in support of renaming the remaining four-block portion of Confederate Boulevard to Springer Boulevard.

After Thursday's recommendation, the Little Rock Board of Directors will make a final vote on the request as early as November ...

Commission members considered the request 58 years to the day that 1,200 troops escorted nine black students, the Little Rock Nine, to their first day of integrated classes at Little Rock's Central High School ...


http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/sep/24/lr-planning-commission-supports-confederate-boulev/?f=latest

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LR Planning Commission supports Confederate Boulevard name change (AR) (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP
... The original Confederate Boulevard spanned roughly 2.5 miles through a predominantly black struggle4progress Sep 2015 #1

struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
1. ... The original Confederate Boulevard spanned roughly 2.5 miles through a predominantly black
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 03:45 PM
Sep 2015

section of southeast Little Rock ...

Little Rock officials vote to rename Confederate Boulevard
September 25, 2015 11:00 AM
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/confederate-boulevard-in-little-rock-arkansas-may-get-name-change-1.10889560

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