The remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and leader of the Ku Klux Klan, will be moved from Memphis to a Confederate museum 200 miles away.
The Confederate general whose statue was already removed from a Memphis park will soon exit the park himself. Workers started the process Tuesday of digging up the bodies of.
Officials at the Georgia park voted to move flags and create exhibits to put the Civil War into fuller context. But the likeness of three Confederate leaders carved into stone isn’t going anywhere.
High court: Charlottesville can remove Confederate statues
MATTHEW BARAKAT and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
April 1, 2021
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1of3FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 file photo, city workers drape a tarp over a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Emancipation park in Charlottesville, Va., intended to symbolize the city s mourning for Heather Heyer who was killed while protesting a white nationalist rally earlier in the month. On Thursday, April 1, 2021, Virginia s highest court ruled that the city of Charlottesville can take down this and another statue of a Confederate general.Steve Helber/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3FILE - In this Saturday, July 8, 2017 file photo, protesters carry signs in front of a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson as they demonstrate against a KKK rally in Justice Park in Charlottesville, Va. On Thursday, April 1, 2021, Virginia s highest court ruled that the city of Charlottesville can take down