A Name Under Siege
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On the fourth floor of the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, on a top shelf just to the left of the map collection, lie more than a dozen books that profile one famous Memphian: Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. There are the old ones,...News from Around the South 12/16 to 12/23
FLORIDA: School District Will Rename High School Named for KKK leader JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Following a petition drive that garnered more than 160,000 signatures, a Florida school district will rename a high school whose current name commemorates a Confederate...News from Around the South 7/8 – 7/15
Kentucky: Letter from Pastor’s Wife Sparks Furor LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A newspaper column lampooning Southern Baptists, calling the group “the crazy old paranoid uncle of evangelical Christians,” is causing quite a stir in a Kentucky city and put a pastor’s job in...News from Around the South 5/27 – 6/3
Tennessee: Group Challenges Naming of Memphis Parks MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Several plaintiffs have filed suit against the renaming of Confederate-themed city parks in Memphis, asserting only the mayor can change park names. According to The Commercial Appeal, nine...Obiter Dicta
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