A highway in Florida won't be keeping its name much longer after a county voted to change the name of a handful of 'Dixie' highways to 'Harriet Tubman Highway.'
A highway in Florida won't be keeping its name much longer after a county voted to change the name of a handful of"Dixie" highways to"Harriet Tubman Highway."
Miami-Dade County commissioners unanimously approved plans Wednesday to rename portions of The Dixie Highway, which runs 5,786 miles through 10 states from Michigan to Miami, according to CNN affiliate WPLG."The time is always right to do what is right," said Miami-Dade District 9 Commissioner Dennis Moss, quoting Martin Luther King, Jr. Moss led the effort to rename the highway after Tubman, a famous African American abolitionist.
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