Resident champions of Plan Langston Blvd and County Board members say the draft plan can take a stronger stance on affordable housing, transit, support for small businesses and climate change.
(Updated at 11:40 a.m.) Arlington's Lee Highway Alliance, with the county's blessing, is embarking on a renaming process for Lee Highway. In a press release
December 11, 2020 at 10:45am
A week after narrowing down the list of possible new names for Lee Highway to ten, a task force has settled on its recommendation.
The state route through Arlington currently named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee should instead be named after civil rights figures Mildred and Richard Loving, says the Working Group on Renaming Lee Highway.
“Mildred and Richard Loving Avenue” would honor the Virginia couple whose fight for the legalization of interracial marriage in the the 1960s culminated in a Supreme Court case and inspired the 2016 movie
Loving.
Though Caroline County residents, the Lovings also lived in Washington, D.C., where they originally married in 1958 since interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia at the time. They were forced to move to D.C. in 1959 after being arrested and pleading guilty to “cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth.” Their fight to overturn anti-miscegenation laws was