After Lee, it's Lincoln's turn | News, Sports, Jobs
WASHINGTON — First, they came for the Confederates. And that purge is far from over. Jefferson Davis Highway in Arlington, named for the president of the Confederacy, has been re-christened Richmond Highway. An Arlington group is calling for the removal of Robert E. Lee’s name from Lee Highway to be replaced by “Mildred & Richard Loving Avenue.” The Lovings were an interracial couple who challenged and helped overturn Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law in the Warren Court. This month, the statue of Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was removed from the campus of Virginia Milit...