Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 14:56:13 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The Klan & litter, was Confederate flags
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> tedwhite at compusnet.com 04/08/02 02:53PM
>>Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>> How to get rid of the Klan?  Education helps.
>> One of the southern states, rather than abandon their program of having =
=
>> groups sponsor road cleanups with the signs acknowledging said work, =
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>> decided to rename the Klan sponsored highway segment The Rosa Parks =
>> Highway.
>
>1.  That was after they found it impossible to legally bar the KKK from =
the
>program.

I believe some states have ended these programs rathet than deal with the =
Klan in the courts.

>
>2.  The KKK never actually took up the sponsorship and eventually =
abandoned
>it.

Strikes me as a good a way as any of having the Klan skulking away . . . =
plus the state kept the program going.

mjw
>
>--Ted White
>