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TRAITOR HIGHWAY TO BE RENAMED
Members of the Alexandria City Council unanimously voted Saturday to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway, a roadway named for the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
The Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Confederate Memorials and Street Names studied the issue before the vote. The Advisory Group received 150 comments through its online feedback form and heard more than 60 speakers at its five public meetings.
The speakers included a former New Yorker who argued that Jefferson Davis was a "tragic hero" who "didn't understand that to some people, slavery was bad."
The Council plans to put in motion a plan to move the Appomattox statute nearby.
http://patch.com/virginia/oldtownalexandria/city-council-votes-rename-jefferson-davis-highway