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FILE - In this Wednesday, June 24, 2015 photo, a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, sits inside the Capitol in Nashville, Tenn. Lawmakers in Tennessee say they were tricked into voting for a resolution honoring Forrest, and they're denouncing it. Democratic Rep. Antonio Parkinson of Memphis told his House colleagues Thursday, April 27, 2017, it was unfair to include the resolution honoring Forrest among a slew of uncontroversial measures. (Dave Boucher/The Tennessean via AP, File)
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FILE - In this July 12, 2015, file photo, Mike Goza, left, helps Mike Junor drape a Confederate battle flag over the base of the statue and tomb of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a rebel general, slave trader and early Ku Klux Klan member, at Health Sciences Park in Memphis, Tenn. State House members said they were surprised that they unwittingly passed a resolution honoring Forrest on April 13, 2017 (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal via AP, file)
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Protesters with a Memphis religious groups took a shovel to Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's grave and statue in a public park Wednesday, in an act that many locals are calling vandalism. (WREG)
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Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. announced a proposal Thursday to remove the statue and grave sites of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife. (WMC Action News 5)
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In this 1998 file photo, a statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest is put up on private property along Interstate 65 in Nashville, Tenn. The statue is one of several of Forrest, an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, that have come under question after a massacre at a black church in Charleston, S.C. Following the massacre, a bipartisan mix of officials across the country is calling for the removal of Confederate flags and other symbols of the Confederacy from public places. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
