Advocates for altering the seal worry the delay could be a sign of even more obstacles ahead.
After Decades-Long Fight, Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Bust Is Out Of The Tennessee Capitol
For decades, activists pushed for the bust of a slave trader and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan to be removed from the state capitol, but a 2013 law made the process lengthy and arduous. On July 22, 2021, the majority of the state building commission voted to move the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest to the Tennessee State Museum, and it was gone the next morning.
Remains Of Confederate General Exhumed For Relocation To Middle Tennessee
The group responsible for relocating the monument of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest say the remains of Forrest and his wife are gone from a Memphis park.
Tennessee Historical Commission Votes To Relocate Nathan Bedford Forrest Bust
After decades of protests, the Tennessee Historical Commission voted Tuesday to relocate a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state capitol.
What Can Modern Day Business Leaders Learn From Confederate Failures At The Battle of Franklin?
A new job training from Vanderbilt has Tennessee business leaders learning from the mistakes of Confederate generals in the Civil War.