Killing the "Dixie Highway"...at least in part of Florida.

 "....a 5,786-mile route spanning ten states, stretches from Michigan to Florida. First conceived during the early 20th century, the highway borrows its name from a moniker for the American South—particularly those states that belonged to the Confederacy."  

THE DIXIE HIGHWAY


 Ironically, the Dixie Highway did not run through Alabama.

On the other hand, the Dixie Overland Highway, an East-West route, ran across the state.

Again, Ironically, it was the same route, Highway 80, that the Civil Rights protestors would follow during the storied Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March in 1965.

Now, Smithsonian Magazine reports, one part of the Dixie Highway in Florida, near Miami, is being renamed for Harriet Tubman:

"In their resolution to rename the highway, the commissioners note that “Dixie represents a troubling time in our nation’s past, marred by the inhumane celebration and unconscionable profit of the perils of racism, segregation, and the atrocities of slavery.”