Security will be heightened at the county NAACP's annual awards banquet Friday night because of "strongly-worded" e-mails objecting to the controversial keynote speaker, the group's president said Monday.

Jacqueline Allsup said none of the e-mails threatened the group or the Rev. Dr. Jerimiah Wright, but instead advised the group that "it would be in your best interest not to do this."

"The e-mails that we have received were enough for us to be concerned" said Allsup, who declined to release any of them.

After Wright was named last month as the guest speaker at the Freedom Fund...