Statue Honoring KKK Grand Wizard Planned on Alabama Public Land

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A group in Selma, Ala. known as the Friends of Forrest are renovating a monument honoring Civil War Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest who was the first "Grand Wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan. The City Council approved renovation is stirring controversy because some say the statue sits on public land.

Forrest, a slave owner and a slave trader, was tapped to be the Ku Klux Klan's first Grand Wizard - or supreme leader, the KKK's highest position -- at a meeting in April 1867, according to Anti-Defamation League.