Milestones
Jun 11, 2021
2 minutes
By Tami Sawyer
EXHUMED
Nathan Bedford Forrest
A win in the fight against white supremacy
IT TOOK DECADES. TENNESSEE’S BLACK RESIDENTS HAVE long demanded the removal of a statue and the remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest—a Confederate general, slave trader and Ku Klux Klan leader—from a city park in Memphis, where I grew up. Although earlier protests led to authorities’ removing his statue in
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