Mississippi group wants 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.

A 2014 plate would feature Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who became an important leader of the Klan after the war.

Forrest was most known for directing a massacre of black Union soldiers who had already laid down their arms at Fort Pillow in April 1864.

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