Article 5JH6W Memphis exhumes body of Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from city park

Memphis exhumes body of Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from city park

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Associated Press in Memphis
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  • Remains of Confederate general and wife will be relocated
  • Forrest owned enslaved people and led the Ku Klux Klan

Workers have begun digging up the remains of a Confederate general, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and moving the former slave trader's body from a park in Memphis, Tennessee, to a museum hundreds of miles away.

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