Monday 19 May 2014

The KKK adopted a road in Missouri. In response, the state legislature renamed it after Rosa Parks

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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