Naming streets for Martin Luther King Jr: No easy road

Landscape and Race in the United States

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 213-236

  Alderman, Derek H ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203621622     Document Type: Chapter

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3. Pat Wilcox, “Unity Asked in Street Name Change,” Chattanooga Times, March 25,1981, B1.
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5. Pat Wilcox, “City Reverses, Renames Ninth Street for King,” Chattanooga Times, July 15,1981, A1.
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7. Jonathan Tilove, Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America's Main Street (New York: Random House, 2003).
8. Matthew Mitchelson, Chris McPhilamy, and Derek Alderman by performing street-name lookups in www.mapblast.com, www.melissadata.com, and American Business Disc (InfoUSA)
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51. Christina Headrick, “NAACP Wants Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue Moved,” St. Petersburg Times, August 31, 2001, 7.
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