Public hearing to rename streets named for KKK wizard

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Public hearing to rename streets named for KKK wizard

ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — Mayor Rusty Paul requested the change noting that the streets may have been named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, a general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

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