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Nathan Bedford Forrest statue in Tennessee removed

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After more than two decades, the controversial Nathan Bedford Forrest statue along Interstate 65 has been removed. This comes one year after Bill Dorris — the statue owner and the ...
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Tennessee Commission Rejects City's Request to Remove Monument to First Grand Wizard of KKK

Erected in 1905, the towering statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest pays tribute to the Ku Klux Klan's first Grand Wizard. Statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis’ Health Sciences Park (all photos by ...
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Memphis begins work of exhuming remains of early KKK leader, removing them from public park

Work began Tuesday in Memphis, Tennessee, to move the remains of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader out of the public park that once bore his name. Construction workers began the ...
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As Confederate Monuments Fall, Do They Epitomize America’s Illness?

Two more Confederate statues came down the night of December 20 in Memphis, Tennessee. The city’s mayor and council, which had been trying to get rid of the monuments for years, had to contend with ...