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Nathan Bedford Forrest, Tennessee
In December 2017, the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan was pulled down in Memphis. It was removed together with a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
However, the lawmakers in Tennessee have stripped Memphis of a quarter a million dollars as punishment for this removal.
Two months before the removal of Forrest’s and Davis’s statues, a sign at the Ryman Auditorium reading ‘1897 Confederate Gallery‘ was quietly removed. The sign had been put up to commemorate the reunion of Confederate veterans.
