When are we going to get rid of the Senator Robert Byrd bridges, court houses, roads, government buildings? He was was a recruiter for the Klu Klux Klan, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge
In 2011, the bridge was listed as functionally obsolete, meaning that it does not meet current design standards for its current traffic load.
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The bridge is named after Edmund Winston Pettus, a lawyer, judge, Confederate brigadier general, head of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, and U.S. senator.
Because of Pettus's role in supporting slavery and racism, a movement is aiming to rename the bridge. With the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in 2015, a group of college students and others organized a campaign to rename the bridge. Changing the name would require approval from the Alabama Legislature. One proposed alternative name is the John Lewis Bridge, after John Lewis, the civil rights leader who played a prominent role in the Selma to Montgomery marches. An earlier attempt to change the name in 2010 failed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Pettus_Bridge