NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A state lawmaker says he is seeking to have the legislature do away with a day honoring Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan member Nathan Bedford Forrest.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The remains of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife have been removed from Health Sciences Park in Memphis, where they had been interred since the early 20th century. The ...

Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest died in 1877, yet the slave trader and Klan leader still haunts the American landscape. There’s a statue of him overlooking a cemetery in Rome, Ga ...

The new resolution was passed 94-0 along with other items on the House consent calendar, a slate of bills and resolutions deemed uncontroversial and not requiring any floor debate.

In this image provided by WTVF, the statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest is taken down from its site along Interstate 65 Tuesday, Dec. 7, in Nashville, Tenn.

After many of their African American opponents had tried to surrender, Forrest’s men nevertheless executed approximately 70 percent of them. Pictured here shortly after the Civil War in civilian ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- -- JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Nathan Bedford Forrest was a millionaire slave trader, a ruthless Confederate general, an early Ku Klux Klan leader -- and the namesake of what is ...