Possible New Name For Atlanta’s Confederate Avenue To Be Focus Of Hearing

Among possible replacement names: Considerate Avenue, United Avenue and Soldier Avenue.

About nine months after a panel recommended the immediate renaming of Confederate Avenue in Atlanta, city officials are planning a public hearing.

A City Council committee voted to hold the hearing and a “listening session” in September, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

That’s likely to continue contentious debate over the Civil War-themed name along Confederate and East Confederate avenues in southeast Atlanta and across the city.