NASHVILLE - A Republican-led legislative panel has decided not to decide, for now, whether it thinks a bust of a former Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader should be removed from the Tennessee Capitol. Republicans said the delay allows Tennessee’s Capitol Commission to weigh in first. Removing the bust would require approval from the Capitol Commission and then the state’s Historical Commission, as laid out by the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act. Forrest was a Confederate cavalry general who amassed a fortune before the Civil War as a plantation owner and slave trader in Memphis. YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...His bust at the Capitol was unveiled in 1978 and has stirred opposition ever since.

Source: thestar February 04, 2020 22:18 UTC