Florida's Old Dixie Hwy becomes President Barack Obama Hwy

The city of Riviera Beach in Florida has begun replacing Old Dixie Highway signs with ones honoring the nation’s first black president.

Many black Americans have little love for the term “Dixie,” a reference to the slave-holding South. Obama, on the other hand, is revered by most black Americans.

Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters pushed for the street sign change from Old Dixie to Obama, and his colleagues on the City Council agreed.

Now, the Old Dixie Highway signs are on their way out. They will be replaced by ones reading “President Barack Obama Highway.”

The renamed highway also means that there will be a historic street-sign meeting between Obama and another figure beloved by black Americans – the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.