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Published on Jul 11, 2015
The Memphis City Council is taking a step in the right direction, unanimously voting to remove a monument to Nathan Bedford Forest, the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.
Forest is infamous for a Civil War massacre of 200 surrendering Union troops.
Hosts Ana Kasparian (The Point) and John Iadarola (Think Tank) break it down.
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"The Memphis City council took steps on Tuesday to begin the process of removing a monument to Confederate War General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the nation’s first Ku Klux Klan “grand wizard.”
In an unanimous vote, the council approved a resolution for the removal of Bedford’s remains from under a statue in his honor that currently sits in Health Sciences Park on Union Avenue.”*