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Middle Tenn. State students protest campus building named for Confederate leader
By Sarah Grace Taylor, Middle Tennessee State University
September 1, 2015 2:09 pm
Middle Tennessee State University MTSU students, alumni and faculty joined together August 27 in cross-campus march to protest the name of Forrest Hall.
Forrest Hall, the university’s military science building, was named after Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1958. Forrest, who participated in the Fort Pillow massacre, was also alleged to have been the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan ...
http://college.usatoday.com/2015/09/01/students-protest-confederate-building/