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The Department of Transportation has halted a $ 7 billion highway expansion project in Texas to expand I-45 on the edge of downtown Houston.The department cited the Civil Rights Act as saying that the highway widening plan would displace…

Clyde Kennard (Wikipedia) A stretch of freeway near the University of Southern Mississippi was named to honor a civil rights pioneer who was wrongly convicted after trying to enroll in the all-white university in the 1950s. The…

HATTIESBURG • A stretch of freeway near the University of Southern Mississippi was named to honor a civil rights pioneer who was wrongly convicted after trying to enroll in the all-white university in the…