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Memphis Confederate Monument Fight Draws In Lawmakers Across Tennessee

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A statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest that marked the graves of the Confederate general and his wife was removed in 2017. It and their remains are being transferred to a Confederate museum in Columbia.
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The issue of Confederate monument removal has come back to the state legislature this year in the shape of several bills filed, mainly, by East Tennessee Republicans.

Their new proposals seem to be a direct response to the action taken by Memphis late last year. The city executed what they believe was a legal workaround to existing state law prohibiting monument removal.

In this week’s edition of
The Tri-Star State, Nashville Public Radio’s Jason Moon Wilkins and statehouse reporter Chas Sisk look at what the new bills do and why some in the GOP want the issue to go away.

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Chas Sisk, Senior Editor

Chas joined WPLN in 2015 and became an editor in 2018. Previously, he covered state politics for Nashville Public Radio and The Tennessean, and he’s also reported on communities, politics and business for a variety of publications in Massachusetts, New York and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University, where he studied economics and journalism.

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