KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Emotions that simmered for nearly a year over the renaming of a historic major thoroughfare in Kansas City, Missouri, for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led to a tense scene at a black church as get-out-the vote efforts wound down ahead of residents going to the polls.
About 100 supporters of keeping the King name for the 10-mile boulevard were at a rally to court voters on Nov. 3 when opponents walked into the Paseo Baptist Church and stood along its two aisles. Those against the King name stood silently and didn’t respond to calls for them to sit down. Several speakers and people in the crowd told them they were being disrespectful.
