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A 2015 attempt by the Memphis City Council to remove the statue was blocked by the Tennessee Historical Commission in 2016. [8] In September 2017, the Memphis City Council passed an ordinance to remove Confederate statues from public parks, including the Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument and the Jefferson Davis Monument, after October 13, 2017, due in part to increased police expenditure, to ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue, former statue in Nashville, Tennessee Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument .
Kenneth P'pool, who chaired the Nathan Bedford Forrest Bust Committee of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 1973 (P'pool reportedly also earlier supported the candidacy of George Wallace for president in 1968), the late Tennessee state Senator and Sons of Confederate Veterans Joseph E. Johnston Camp 28 member Douglas Henry (D-Nashville), and the late Civil War expert and collector Lanier ...
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A life-size statue of Larry Finch, beloved figure in University of Memphis basketball, stands outside the Laurie-Walton Family Basketball Center on UM’s south campus. The statue captions No. 21 ...
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A statue honoring civil rights hero and US Congressman John Lewis was unveiled Saturday outside of Atlanta, replacing a Confederate monument that had stood there for more than a century.