TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 7, 2022

A Tennessee senator wants to transfer the bust of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early Ku Klux Klan leader from the state, to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Tennessean reports. Sen. Janice Bowling, R-Tullahoma, has filed a bill to transfer the bust to the Sons of Confederate Veterans General Headquarters in Columbia. The group commissioned and donated the bust to the state in 1977. The bust was removed from the state Capitol in July 2021. It is currently on display at the Tennessee State Museum.