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struggle4progress

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Tue Sep 12, 2017, 12:05 AM Sep 2017

Shelby TN County Commission Joins City Call to Remove Monuments

Shelby County Commissioners approved a resolution Monday, Sept. 11, backing the city’s efforts to remove Confederate monuments with a waiver from the Tennessee Historical Commission. The resolution by commissioner Walter Bailey also backs the Memphis City Council’s move to an ordinance that could take down the monuments after the Oct. 13 decision if the historical commission does not grant the waiver ...

Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell reiterated his call to see the monuments to Confederacy president Jefferson Davis and Confederate General, slave trader and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest removed. He also said local governments should have control over such decisions and not state government ...

https://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2017/sep/12/county-commission-joins-city-call-to-remove-confederate-monuments/

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Shelby TN County Commission Joins City Call to Remove Monuments (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2017 OP
It'll be interesting, at least to me, to see how the city deals with the Forrest monument... Docreed2003 Sep 2017 #1

Docreed2003

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1. It'll be interesting, at least to me, to see how the city deals with the Forrest monument...
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 12:16 AM
Sep 2017

That monument stands right over that bastards rotten bones, it's one of the reasons it hasn't been moved before now. That miserable monument stood in a park adjacent to my medical school and I had to pass it daily. Perhaps the city will return the remains to their original burial place in the city.

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