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  • Memphis, Tenn., Votes to Exhume Body of Confederate General, KKK Leader Buried in City Park

    07/13/2015 11:01:35 AM PDT · by mojito · 54 replies
    The Root ^ | 7/9/2015 | Breanna Edwards
    Memphis, Tenn., city leaders unanimously voted on Tuesday night to exhume the body of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader who is buried in the city’s Health Sciences Park, and move him to a private cemetery, Fusion reports. According to the report, the City Council also voted to move his wife’s body from the park and to take down the statue of Forrest sitting on a horse that currently stands in the park. The action is just one of the more recent moves of city and state leaders pushing for the removal of Confederate...