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Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest Rides Again
(CNN)The remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife will be removed from a Memphis park where a monument of him once stood.The decision to move their remains came after the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a non-profit organization of male descendants of Confederate veterans, agreed to drop a pending lawsuit against park owners, according to CNN affiliate WREG. Forrest, who was a slave trader and early Ku Klux Klan leader, and his wife, Mary Ann, had their graves at Health Sciences Park, where a monument to Forrest used to be. City leaders voted in 2013 to change the name of three parks that honored Confederate figures in Memphis. Then, in 2015, they voted to move the Forrest statue. To proceed with the removal, they sought a waiver from the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act, a law that governs the removal, relocation or renaming of memorials on public property. But the Tennessee Historical Commission denied the city's request. Related: Nathan Bedford Forrest: 2019-07-13 Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Honors KKK Grand Wizard With Proclamation Nathan Bedford Forrest: 2018-04-20 House punishes Memphis for removing Confederate statues with $250,000 budget cut Nathan Bedford Forrest: 2017-11-14 From One Frenzy to the Next Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-15 |
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