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Ku Klux Klan wants to adopt highway in Georgia

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    KKK applies for volunteer program in Peach Tree state

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The complex plan has applied to pick up trash along this stretch of highway 515.

It's where the road and urged Union County west of Blair's bill.

The states adopt a highway program allows any quotes civic minded organization to apply.

Volunteers agreed to periodically cleanup litter their -- is recognized with a roadside -- In this case the Georgia DOT form -- the applicant as the international keystone knights of the kkk.

State representative Tyrone Brooks heads the Georgia association of black elected officials.

They don't qualify as a city minded group -- groups don't distraught that they would of this based on religion ethnicity.

City and it -- work for the common all of us.

He says the state should never have considered the client application.

In a statement don't like -- of the anti defamation league said quote it is ironic that the keystone knights of the kkk.

Proposes specific minded activity.

And territory where wants other Klansmen terrorized African Americans and others who they targeted for their campaigns of any.

One north Georgia president we talked to supports the -- request.

-- -- The Bengals and nobody named hard enough that I will remember help this help the community it's also -- from.

Members of the north Georgia -- group would not speak on camera but they denied filing the application to enhance their image or recruitment.

Georgia's adopt a highway program began 23 years ago in union -- all day Fox 5 News.