State commission delays action on Nathan Bedford Forrest bust (TN)

Dave Boucher
11 a.m. CDT July 17, 2015

The State Capitol Commission decided to delay taking any action on whether it should move the controversial bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the Tennessee State Capitol.

Instead, the commission appointed a subcommittee to establish a set of criterion to examine how the state will decide what monuments, including the Forrest bust, may remain, be removed from or become a part of the capitol collection ...

The bust of Forrest, a Confederate general and early leader in the Ku Klux Klan, remains a divisive point for state leaders. In the wake of nine black church members being shot and killed in Charleston, S.C., U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., and House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh, D-Ripley, called for the removal of the bust.

Shortly thereafter, both Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said it would be a good idea to remove the bust ...

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2015/07/17/state-commission-debates-nathan-bedford-forrest-bust/30290179/