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Montgomery, AL - Martin Luther King Jr. will be posthumously
honored and renamed Martin Luther King Highway, said a King
family representative Friday.
After years of failed attempts at renaming the slain civil
rights leader Martin Luther King Avenue, Martin Luther King
Place and the hard to spell Martin Luther King Jr. Cul de
Sac, the Appellate Court of Montgomery finally approved a
rare posthumous name change, which may only be implemented
by the next of kin, or the people who actually make roadway
street signs.
Though he may be still be referred to as Martin Luther King
Jr., all official documents bearing his name will be changed
to reflect the new title, considered the first of it's kind
and initiated after concern by family members that some people
would not associate the name of existing Martin Luther King
streets with the actual leader and his movement.
"I know that my husband would have wanted to be known
as Martin Luther King Highway," widow Coretta Scott King
said. "He had a dream. A dream where people could travel
from miles around to hear him speak, and then stop once in
a while on a rural exit ramp, where they would be greeted
by gas stations outlet stores and a Waffle House or Shoney's.
Then when they became tired, they could rest at a highway
stop, with bathroom facilities and vending machines and maybe
sleep in their car, where they would never be afraid of strange
people in dirty clothes or cryptic messages scribbled on bathroom
stalls."
"With the renaming of my husband, the dream is now fulfilled."
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