Interstate 55 in Missouri

Interstate 55 in Missouri

Infobox road
state=MO
route=55
type=I
alternate_name=
maint=



length_mi=210
length_round=
length_ref=
length_notes=
established=
direction_a=South
starting_terminus=jct|state=AR|I|55 in Arkansas
junction=Jct|state=MO|I|57 in Sikeston, Missouri
Jct|state=MO|I|255 in St. Louis, Missouri
Jct|state=MO|I|64 in St. Louis, Missouri
Jct|state=MO|I|44in St. Louis, Missouri
direction_b=North
ending_terminus=Illinois border
previous_type=US
previous_route=54
next_type=US
next_route=56

In the state of Missouri, Interstate 55 runs from the Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis to the Arkansas border to the south.

Route description

History

Sponsorship controversy

The white supremacy group Ku Klux Klan began fighting several court battles with the state of Missouri after the state disputed its right to sponsor a stretch of highway. In March 2004, after a U.S. District Court judge found that blocking the Klan's sponsorship was unconstitutional, the Court of Appeals ruled that the state must erect signs announcing the group's sponsorship. However, the Missouri Legislature later voted to rename the stretch of I-55 the "Rosa Parks Highway" in honor of the Montgomery civil rights hero who began the Montgomery bus boycott. The Klan were eventually dropped from the scheme on April 4, 2005, on the grounds that for the duration of their sponsorship, they had not once cleaned the highway.

Exit list

References


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