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RE: Memphis Takes Down Confederate Statues
(12-21-2017 04:25 PM)bullet Wrote:  
(12-21-2017 04:21 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  Why would Memphis have a statue of a KKK Grand Wizard?

He was a prominent Memphis citizen. And when the KKK got out of hand and violent, he helped put a lid on it, even offering to help exterminate Klan members who were killing innocents.

There used to be a historical marker at the corner of 3rd and Adams across from the courthouse, which indicated that Forrest's house and business once was located there. The marker indicated that he was a "prominent business man" in Memphis before the Civil War. A little research determined that was the location of his slave trading business.

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