In 2012, the most notorious white supremacy group, the Ku Klux Klan,
decided to take a short hiatus from spreading hate to pen and send an
application seeking to fund a one-mile section of Route 515 located in
the Appalachian Mountains.
Not everybody welcomed this idea with open arms though. There are
those who reasoned that were the Ku Klux Klan to sponsor a highway, the
move would grant them the rights to erect road signs hailing their work.
The civil rights leaders had to ask the Georgia Department of
Transportation to deny the radical group the rights to this.
However, in a similar litigation case involving the KKK and Missouri
Department of Transportation in 2005, the latter lost a case in the US
Supreme Court following the denial of a highway adoption application
from another KKK chapter. The Klan worn the day after arguing that the
First Amendment blocked the DOT from denying them an application given
that it had disagreed with the political agenda of the organization.
However, things took a turn against the KKK following the adoption of
the highway, and the Department of Transportation renamed the road after
the one civil rights activist, Rosa Parks.
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