Georgians want Tara road renamed for Rosa Parks

JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) — The street names in suburban Atlanta's Clayton County pay homage to the Old South and the Lost Cause: Robert E. Lee Drive. Old Dixie Highway. And Tara Boulevard, named for the plantation home in "Gone With the Wind."

Now, in a move that encapsulates the county's changing racial demographics, some residents want to rename Tara Boulevard for the civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.

"We need to get off that plantation mentality to honor a woman who changed America like few Americans could," said Bob Hartley, a black man who is the leader of the group of about eight residents asking the Clayton County Commission to make the change.