There are 45 article(s) tagged Nathan Bedford Forrest:

• September 2021

  • Rubble from Forrest exhumation mars Health Sciences Park

    The Forrests’ reburial ceremony on Sept. 18 in Middle Tennessee may come sooner than restoration of Health Sciences Park.

    By Tom Bailey September 02, 2021

• July 2021

  • The Early Word: Redbirds make history. Hardaway recycles it.

    Just for fun, enjoy a cold one at Grind City and take a selfie at Pose 901. Let history record the Redbirds streak, and the removal of Forrest’s bust. Meanwhile, Hardaway makes his own history ... and repeats it.

    By Andrew A. Smith July 23, 2021

  • Battle over Forrest bust ends with removal from Capitol

    The Nathan Bedford Forrest bust in the state Capitol will be moved to the Tennessee State Museum. 

    By Ian Round July 22, 2021

  • Opinion: End is near for Nathan Bedford Forrest bust at Capitol

    Forrest believed that the worth of Black people was only as laborers, nothing more.

    By Otis Sanford July 22, 2021

  • Uncertainty awaits Forrest bust in Nashville

    A required 4-month waiting period for the removal of a Nathan Bedford Forrest bust from the Tennessee Capitol building has expired, but if and when it will be removed is still uncertain.

    By The Associated Press July 12, 2021

• June 2021

  • Juneteenth festivities celebrate and reflect on progress

    Hundreds gathered at Health Sciences Park for the second day of the weekend-long celebration. Juneteenth events were also scheduled at Fourth Bluff Park, Orange Mound Tower and LeMoyne-Owen College.

    By Omer Yusuf June 20, 2021

  • Forrest remains removed from Health Sciences Park

    The announcement of the removal of the remains was made Friday, June 11, in Health Sciences Park, where Forrest and his wife had been reinterred for more than 100 years after originally being buried in Elmwood Cemetery.

    By Bill Dries June 12, 2021

  • Teachers at Grizz Prep, surrounded by history, pledge to ‘teach truth’ about race

    Social studies teachers question, challenge new state law that restricts instruction on race, racism.

    Related story: 

    Did House Bill 580 negate critical race theory or prove it?

    By David Waters June 12, 2021

  • Announcement on Forrest remains set for Friday in Health Sciences Park

    The announcement comes 11 days after work began on removing what is left of the monument. The work was also to include the reinterment of the remains of Forrest and his wife.

    By Bill Dries June 11, 2021

  • City and county budget paths get more interesting as fiscal year nears

    The path of the two budget seasons and the use of federal funds to close financial gaps — plus other topics — are the focus of a reporters roundtable on “Behind The Headlines.”

    By Bill Dries June 09, 2021

  • Opinion: With Confederate monuments gone, racist diatribes follow

    An incident at Health Sciences Park goes beyond one opportunistic racist hothead with more Confederate flags than he has sense. It’s emblematic of the growing white resentment to America’s reckoning with race.

    By Otis Sanford June 08, 2021

  • Removal of Forrest remains begins with confrontation and threats

    The process of relocating the remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife began Tuesday at Health Sciences Park. The scene quickly became tense after workers put up Confederate flags around the site and began dumping debris on the letters of a Black Lives Matter mural around the monument. 

    By Bill Dries June 02, 2021

• April 2021

  • Juneteenth moving to park where Forrest statue once stood

    The annual Juneteenth celebration is moving from Robert R. Church Park to Health Sciences Park, held on the grounds where Nathan Bedford Forrest’s statue once stood.

    By Omer Yusuf April 30, 2021

  • Damaged historical marker at former slave market rededicated Downtown

    The marker notes the location of a slave market run by Nathan Bedford Forrest. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff April 07, 2021

• November 2020

  • Motion filed to begin process of moving Forrest remains

    No location has been decided on for the re-interment, according to SCV leader Lee Millar. But court documents suggest the remains and equestrian statue of Forrest removed from Health Sciences Park could be bound for a new National Confederate Museum in Columbia, Tn. 

    By Bill Dries November 20, 2020

• August 2020

  • Sons of Confederate Veterans claim State Capitol Commission has no authority over Forrest bust

    A Sons of Confederate Veterans lawsuit against the state contends the State Capitol Commission has no authority over the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest and that a vote to relocate it should be “null and void.”

    By Sam Stockard August 19, 2020

• July 2020

  • Forrest slave market historic marker damaged, to be repaired

    It is the second historical marker to be snapped in two from its base in the past month. The rector of Calvary Episcopal Church says the marker, noting the location of Nathan Bedford Forrest's slave market, will be repaired and reinstalled as soon as possible.

    By Bill Dries July 19, 2020

  • Capitol Commission votes to relocate Forrest bust with two U.S. admirals

    With protesters shouting in the halls of the Tennessee Tower, the State Capitol Commission narrowly voted Thursday, July 9, to relocate the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust to the State Museum.

    By Sam Stockard July 09, 2020

  • Governor supports moving Forrest bust to State Museum

    Gov. Bill Lee is expected to tell the State Capitol Commission he believes the monument should be moved to the State Museum.

    By Sam Stockard July 09, 2020

• June 2020

  • ‘Black Lives Matter’ painted on sidewalks near former Forrest statue site

    Activists have painted Black Lives Matter on sidewalks surrounding the site where the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest stood for decades before it was removed in 2017. 

    By Yolanda Jones June 25, 2020

• May 2020

  • ‘Ida B. Wells Park’ strikes just the right note

    Renaming Health Sciences Park after Ida B. Wells would honor one of the city’s most underappreciated historic figures.

    By Otis Sanford May 21, 2020

  • Herrington: Forrest saga on path to surprisingly amicable end

    The Forrest statue made the park unusable space for most Memphians. The Sons of Confederate Veterans lost the battle for the hearts and minds of Memphis, thank goodness, long before they lost the legal battle over moving the monuments to Forrest and Jefferson Davis. 

    By Chris Herrington May 14, 2020

  • Forrest reinterment plans being made following end to lawsuits

    A final lawsuit over the grave site of the Confederate General, slave trader and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard was dropped this week and legal filings toward moving the remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife should be filed in Chancery Court soon.

    By Bill Dries May 12, 2020

• February 2020

  • Lamar demands end to Forrest Day, compares him to Hitler

    State Rep. London Lamar compared Nathan Bedford Forrest to Hitler and urged lawmakers Tuesday to put an end to Tennessee’s annual daylong observance for the Confederate general.

    By Sam Stockard February 11, 2020

  • Nelson: The conservative case for moving Forrest’s bust

    His defenders hail Nathan Bedford Forrest's 'great commander' status. But at Fort Pillow, Forrest gained temporary possession of a meaningless fort while making things worse for the Confederate military effort everywhere.

    By Michael Nelson February 11, 2020