Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill declaring Saturday as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in honor of the Confederate general, slave trader and early Ku Klux Klan leader. The governor of Tennessee has been required by law to annually declare July 13 in honor of the general.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill declaring Saturday as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in honor of the Confederate general, slave trader and early Ku Klux Klan leader.
"I signed the bill because the law requires that I do that and I haven’t looked at changing that law," Lee told The Tennessean Thursday."I think for many of us that know this has happened have oftentimes wondered when would a governor ask us to assist in helping change the law," state Rep. Harold Love, D-Nashville, who is black, told Memphis ABC affiliate WATN.
"This is WRONG. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general & a delegate to the 1868 Democratic Convention," Cruz wrote."He was also a slave trader & the 1st Grand Wizard of the KKK. Tennessee should not have an official day honoring him. Change the law." Following the war, he continued as a businessman and joined the Ku Klux Klan soon after its founding. He was the first leader of the KKK, coined the Grand Wizard.In December 2017, a statue of Forrest riding a horse was removed from Health Sciences Park in Memphis. Memphis has a population more than 60% black -- one of the highest in the nation.
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