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By W.F. Strong On July 29, 1925 — a full 60 years after the American Civil War — Miss Decca Lamar West of Waco, Texas, wrote a strongly worded letter to Chief Thomas H. MacDonald, the head of what was then the Federal Bureau of Public Roads. Miss West was an influential member of the […] The post Jefferson Davis Highway: The Persistence Of A Confederate Memorial appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.