Atlanta is renaming three streets that currently have Confederate in their names.

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) on Wednesday signed legislation that will change the names, with new street signs expected to go up later this year.

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"For our community to truly be One Atlanta, we must write a new chapter in our own history," Bottoms said in a statement. "The imagery and symbolism of these names and monuments represent systematic injustice, persecution and cruelty. That is not who we are as a city."

Confederate Avenue will become United Avenue, East Confederate Avenue will be renamed United Avenue and Confederate Court will be changed to Trestletree Court.

Neighborhood residents chose the new names, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

An 11-member advisory committee established last year recommended the name changes “to address Confederate iconography in Atlanta,” according to Bottoms’s office.

The move comes a few months after Atlanta officials unveiled new street signs to rename a street in honor of Rep. John Lewis John LewisDemocrats urge Biden to resist filibuster, court-packing calls Rep. Bill Pascrell named chair of House oversight panel The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden goes on offense MORE (D-Ga.).