"A stretch of highway sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan was recently named after civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Missouri [Governor] Mel Carnahan signed legislation in late May that created the Rosa Parks Highway, a portion of Interstate 55 near downtown St. Louis. The Klan won the right to join the state's [Adopt]-A-Highway cleanup program in November and was assigned the I-55 stretch.

'I think the governor appreciates the irony of the KKK picking up trash along the Rosa Parks Highway,' a spokesman said.

Parks' refusal in 1955 to yield her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus kicked off the modern civil rights movement" (Intelligence Briefs, SPLC Report, June 2000).