RICHMOND, Va. -- The Richmond branch of the NAACP is proposing a name change for a highway that currently honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
The organization will be joined in a news conference Monday afternoon by the Jefferson Davis Neighborhood Civic Association.
The association sent a letter to a city councilwoman Saturday urging that the highway's name be changed to a name that’s "more suitable to the culture we currently live in."
Other localities in the state have already changed the name: The road is called Richmond Highway in Fairfax and Arlington counties and in the city of Alexandria.
