Mississippi governor asked to denounce attempts to honor KKK leader

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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/02/14/mississippi.kkk.controversy/index.html

By Antoinette Campbell, CNN
February 14, 2011 -- Updated 2317 GMT (0717 HKT)

(CNN) -- The Mississippi NAACP has called on Governor Haley Barbour to publicly denounce an attempt by a Confederacy group to honor a Ku Klux Klan leader, the organization said Monday.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans has launched the campaign to recognize Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest on a specialty license plate.

Forrest, a popular and controversial figure, is best known as a leader of the KKK, the white supremacist group known for terrorizing blacks in the South after the Civil War.