TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 10, 2024

State officials have voted for the second time to keep Nathan Bedford Forrest’s name on a building at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). According to WPLN, the Tennessee Historical Commission voted down a request from the university to rename Forrest Hall. After the vote, MTSU President Sidney McPhee said the decision was disheartening but the fight to change the name is not over. The commission supported removing a bust of Forrest, a Confederate general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, from the state capitol in 2021.