Could renaming streets in Northern Virginia promote racial healing?

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1. Here are the streets in Alexandria that are named for Confederate heroes

September 13 at 11:04 AM

... Alexandria renamed many streets in 1953, after it annexed part of Fairfax County. The City Council at the time decided to name its north-south streets in the western portion of the city after military leaders from the Confederate States of America, a policy that was repealed in 2014.

Here are the 33 streets that city leaders say are documented as named for Confederates, although two of them are marked “possibly.” Another 30 streets also could be named for Confederate luminaries, but the source of the names is undocumented, the city says ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/here-are-the-streets-in-alexandria-that-are-named-for-confederate-heroes/2015/09/13/8697940e-58be-11e5-8bb1-b488d231bba2_story.html