Taylor Swift Once Attacked a KKK Confederate Statue
It’s upsetting that monuments honoring members of the Ku Klux Klan are still standing. Taylor Swift advocated the removal of ...
The Tennessean (Nashville) on MSN15d
Lawmakers honor 15 enslaved men who built Tennessee Capitol, seek permanent memorial
Another forthcoming proposal would seek to erect a memorial in the Capitol rotunda alcove where a bust of Confederate general ...
PBS1y
Nathan Bedford Forrest
An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer, Nathan Bedford Forrest reportedly had 30 horses shot out from under him. Enlisting as a private in a mounted ...
seattlepi.com13d
The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed
Nathan Bedford Forrest was not covered by Johnson’s general amnesty. As a former Confederate general, he had to apply for a personal presidential pardon, which Johnson granted on July 17, 1868. Two ...
USA Today15d
Lawmakers honor 15 enslaved men who built Tennessee Capitol, seek permanent memorial
Another forthcoming proposal would seek to erect a memorial in the Capitol rotunda alcove where a bust of Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest once stood. Strains of ...
The Conversation12d
The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed
Nathan Bedford Forrest was not covered by Johnson’s general amnesty. As a former Confederate general, he had to apply for a personal presidential pardon, which Johnson granted on July 17 ...