Racial Diversity Billboard May Counter Klan Signs
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS —
Adopt-A-Highway signs sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan on a stretch of Missouri freeway may soon be overshadowed by a larger sign, this one promoting racial diversity.
A coalition of civil rights groups has decided to place a billboard along Interstate 55 at the site where the KKK will be picking up trash. Last month, the Missouri Department of Transportation was forced by a court to allow the Klan to participate in the state cleanup program.
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