Council should explore options to move Forrest statue (TN)
The Commercial Appeal
6:40 a.m. CDT October 25, 2016
It is disappointing that the Tennessee Historical Commission on Friday rejected the city of Memphis’ application to move the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest and the graves Confederate general and his wife to another site.
We urge the Memphis City Council to continue exploring other remedies to have the statue and remains relocated to a more suitable location. Council Chairman Kemp Conrad told a member of The Commercial Appeal’s editorial board Monday the council is pursuing all legal options.
We realize that attempts to move the statue anger some people who hold the former slave trader, acknowledged brilliant military strategist and founder of the Ku Klux Khan, which engaged in a campaign of murder, arson and beatings to deny freedmen their political and economic opportunities the post-Civil War had delivered, in high esteem. Whites who supported the newly freed slaves were not immune from attack ...
Forrest .. represents the worst of Memphis’ segregationist past. The legacy of that past haunts the community today ...
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