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KKK to protest Memphis stripping white supremacist’s name from public park

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Memphis city council voted to re-label park named for Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, Confederate general and former Klansman Members of a branch of the Ku Klux Klan planning a protest in Memphis, Tennessee, this month, after the city’s council voted to strip the name of a former Klan member from…

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GOP Gov. Barbour refuses to denounce license plate pitch honoring KKK leader

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WASHINGTON – Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, declined to denounce a group’s proposal that the state issue a license plate honoring an early Ku Klux Klan leader. The idea, put forth by the white heritage group Sons of Confederate Veterans, would create a state-issued license…

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Mississippi group proposes license plate to honor KKK leader

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African-American leaders have reacted with shock at a plan to feature an early Ku Klux Klan leader on Mississippi license plates. The proposal by the Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) asked that the state issue a series of license plates between now and 2015 to honor the…

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