Remains of the leader of the Ku Klux Klan to be removed from US park | Competitive News

The dismissal comes as a result of an overstatement of images and posters that critics say respects the racist record in the US.

Work to relocate the remains of the Ku Klux Klan leader from a park in the southern United States – a recent event in continue counting on the signs that critics say respect the country’s past – has begun.

Nathan Bedford Forrest was the leading leader of Confederate slavery during the American Civil War, and the first leader, or “Grand Wizard”, to vote for the Klux Klan from 1867 to 1869.

The remains of Forrest, who died in 1877, have already been identified with other parks in Memphis, Tennessee. The painting bore the image of Forrest from 1904 to 2017, after being removed by non-profit owners of the park.

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– Rev. Earle J. Fisher, Ph.D. (@Pastor_Earle) June 1, 2021

On Tuesday, construction began to demolish the foundation, the first part of the demolition of Forrest and his wife’s body, which came after a long march and legal action by government officials.

The dismissal began to diminish with the opposition of the Children of the Confederate Veterans, a group of male Confederate Veterans.

Although the group filed a lawsuit and agreed to transfer the balance last year, problems remained Tuesday, according to local media.

Tami Sawyer, Shelby County Commissioner who led the project, met briefly with site workers Tuesday as they dumped garbage on a Black Lives Matter sign posted on the ground near the cornfield, according to the Commercial Appeal newspaper.

Another employee hoisted the Confederate flag and sang an unconventional Confederate song – Dixie’s Land – while Sawyer spoke to reporters.

“We are not Americans because of race, we are not Memphis of the past, this hatred and prejudice is great,” Sawyer told an employee, according to a video posted online.

The controversy over the abolition of Confederate monuments has been rampant in the US for years as the country examines the national problems. The conference found a new dimension between a a new push Politically due to racism following the massacre of black people by the police in 2020.

The issue is far more serious in Memphis, when human rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Forrest remained a contender in southern history, with some celebrating his Confederate military service.

A slave trader and in the cotton fields, Forrest soldiers are accused of killing hundreds of African American Union soldiers in the Battle of Fort Pillow in 1864.