Remains of Ku Klux Klan leader to be moved from US park
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The removal comes amid a continuing reckoning over symbols and statues that critics say honour the US’s racist history.
A project to relocate the remains of a Ku Klux Klan leader from a park in the southern United States – the most recent action in a continuing reckoning over symbols that critics say honour the country’s racist past – has begun. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a leading pro-slavery Confederate army general during the American Civil War, and the first leader, or “Grand Wizard”, of the racist Ku Klux Klan organisation from 1867 to 1869. The remains of Forrest, who died in 1877, have long been marked by a pedestal in a park in Memphis, Tennessee. The pedestal held a statue of Forrest from 1904 to 2017, after it was removed by the non-profit that owns the park.More Related News