Forrest fight continues MTSU talk on Confederate images (TN)

Brian Wilson, bwilson@dnj.com 2:52 p.m. CDT March 19, 2016

... The < Forrest Hall > student center was dedicated in 1968 with a 600-pound bronze medallion engraved with the image of a Confederate cavalry soldier resembling Forrest.

After hundreds of students protested in fall 1989, the emblem was removed from campus at the end of the semester, the final days of then-President Sam Ingram’s administration ...

The memory of the Confederate general experienced a sort of regional revival during the 1950s, when Dixie symbols were popular on college campuses ...

Ownership of the medallion was eventually given to the Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park near Camden along the Tennessee River. The medallion still sits at the entrance of the state park, said Robert Wood, the park’s manager ...

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