#638
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27 Jan 2018 - 6:35:37 PM
"Stronger Together"
Where's the Proposal to RENAME Everything Named After Klu Klux Klan Chapter Creator, Recruiter (Sophia, WV) and Exalted Cyclops Sen. Robert C. Byrd ?
*When it came time to elect the top officer (Exalted Cyclops) in the local Klan unit, Byrd WON UNANIMOUSLY"
"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
In 1946, Byrd wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Ku_Klux_Klan
More than 50 buildings built with funds from US taxpayers directed to West Virginia are named for either Byrd or his wife, Erma Ora Byrd
Several transportation projects named for Byrd have gained national notoriety, including the Robert C. Byrd Highway. Also known as "Corridor H" of the Appalachian Development Highway System, the highway was dubbed"West Virginia's road to nowhere"in 2009 after it received a $9.5 million earmark in the $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act. The highway received another $21 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Critics argued the traffic on the highway was too light and the cost too high for the project to continue construction until its proposed completion in 2035.
GOVERNMENT
~Robert C. Byrd Rooms, Office of the West Virginia Senate Minority Leader, West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia
~Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse and Federal Building, Beckley, West Virginia
~Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse and Federal Building, Charleston, West Virginia
~Robert C. Byrd Federal Correctional Institution, Hazelton, West Virginia