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Mississippi to Honor NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST with a License Plate...WOW!

Mississippi might get a custom license plate honoring an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan. The Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans wants to sponsor a series of state-issued license plates, with some specifically honoring General Nathan Bedford-Forrest.

Forrest was seen by a genius by some and hated by others for leading an 1864 massacre of black Union troops at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. He was rewarded with a high ranking within the Klan after the war, but is said to have withdrawn from the group later in life.