DeKalb County has taken the first step for it to rename part of Snapfinger Road in honor of the rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The county must get more than half of the property owners of the county segment of the road, between Wesley Chapel and Flat Shoals Parkay, to agree to the change.
At the same time, state Sen. Ronald Ramsey has filed a bill allowing the state to change the rest of the five-mile segment of the road.
If approved, the new Martin Luther King Jr. Road will run through an established middle-class black neighborhood, past King’s namesake high school and into Henry County, where his father grew up.
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