Memphis sells central park in order to remove Confederate monuments in defiance of Tennessee lawmakers
Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest sits in a park in Memphis, Tenn CREDIT: AP
21 DECEMBER 2017 • 6:11PM
- Rozina Sabur, washington
Memphis has sold one of its central city parks in order to take down two Confederate monuments which the state officials had banned it from removing.
The likenesses of rebel leaders Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest were taken down from Health Sciences Park overnight - just hours after the city sold it to a private group.
[FONT="]Forrest was a secessionist general, slave trader and Ku Klux Klan leader and Davis was president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War.[/FONT]
The likenesses of rebel leaders Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest were taken down from Health Sciences Park overnight - just hours after the city sold it to a private group.
[FONT="]Forrest was a secessionist general, slave trader and Ku Klux Klan leader and Davis was president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War.[/FONT]