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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

RARE PHOTOS: Georgia county refuses to change confederate street names | Vintage Vibes

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City leaders on the outskirts of Atlanta declined to pass a new measure that would replace streets named for Confederate leaders.

No one in the Clayton County Board of Commissioners decided during a meeting on Tuesday to second the motion to replace streets named for leaders of the pro-slavery Confederacy like Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis.

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