When will we be honest about what monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest are honoring? Plus the local news for August 28, 2024.
For a second time, Tennessee Historical Commission denies request to remove KKK leader’s name from MTSU building
A building at Middle Tennessee State University will continue bearing the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Amid Ongoing Reckoning, Nathan Bedford Forrest Reinterred In Columbia
The remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife were reinterred in Columbia, Tennessee on Saturday. The Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted a private, military-style funeral for the Civil War general and early Ku Klux Klan leader.
MTSU Revives Bid To Rename Forrest Hall, After Being Rejected By Tennessee’s Historical Commission
Middle Tennessee State University announced it will once again petition the state to change the name of Forrest Hall, named after Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Now That The Forrest Bust Has Been Removed, What Confederate Symbols Might Be Next?
The focus is shifting to other Confederate symbols, and four other campaigns may use the bust’s removal as a roadmap.
Tennessee Removed One Confederate Monument, Yet An Entrenched State Law Still Holds Sway
The bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest has been removed from the Tennessee State Capitol. But the law passed to protect it is unlikely to change in the near future.
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.
Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Bust Can Officially Be Removed From Tennessee Capitol, But No One Is Sure When It Will Be
The bust of confederate general and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest could technically be removed from the state capitol Friday, but instead it is caught in a sort of legislative hot potato.
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.
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