Voters in Kansas City, Missouri approved removing Dr. Martin Luther King's name from one of the city's most historic boulevards, less than a year after the city decided to remove The Paseo for the civil rights icon, the Huff Post website reports today (November 6, 2019).
Results of the vote showed the proposal to remove King's name received nearly 70% of the vote, with just over 30% voting to retain King's name.
In January the city council decided to renme The Paseo -- a 10-muke boulevard on the city's mostly black east side -- after King.
But a group of residents intent on keeping The Paseo name began collecting petitions to put the name change on the ballot and achieved that goal in April.
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