Plans to move the Confederate general's remains to a museum are underway after a long legal battle.
After a long legal battle and repeated calls for the removal of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest's remains from a Memphis park, workers arrived on Tuesday to begin the process of moving the former slave trader's body to a Confederate museum.
"Relocating the graves is proper because the Property has lost its character as a burial ground," Myers wrote in a legal filing. It is another example of how cities and activists have taken steps in recent years to get rid of statues and monuments of historical figures who supported the South's secession and led the fight against the North, from General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy.
Historians say he later became an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, though some of Forrest's supporters dispute that. Forrest's critics call him a violent racist.
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