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Wed Sep 27, 2017, 08:09 AM Sep 2017

AZ: could Jefferson Davis Highway become Rose Mofford Highway?

Maria Polletta, The Republic
Published 7:15 p.m. MT Sept. 26, 2017

Each time Roberto Reveles passes the Jefferson Davis Highway monument near his Gold Canyon home, he recalls his childhood ...

At the movies, Reveles could watch from the balcony but not the main floor. He could use the pool only on Saturdays, before the YMCA drained the week's dirty water ...

Reveles is behind the most prominent of three citizen proposals to remove the highway-name designation honoring Davis, the president of the Confederacy.

The designation and corresponding monument, off U.S. 60 near Peralta Road, together constitute one of six Confederate memorials in Arizona ...

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/pinal/2017/09/26/arizona-could-jefferson-davis-highway-become-rose-mofford-highway/698885001/

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