It’s not a coincidence that you will find most Confederate-named streets and most streets honoring Martin Luther King in the South, where the majority of the nation’s black people still live. When King died in 1968, black communities clamored to change their streets to his name. (It took Haarlem, in the Netherlands, only a week to name a street after him; one appeared in Mainz, West Germany, in three weeks. Still, an MLK street didn’t appear in Atlanta, MLK’s birthplace, for eight years.)
