Two More Confederate Statues Are Removed

The Davis Statue at The Alabama Capitol Building

From The Washington Post:

"The first to go was the equestrian statue of Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, especially loathed by many today because he was also a slave trader and a founder and “Grand Wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan. The statue was placed in a city-owned park in 1904 during the Jim Crow era of segregation.
About a mile and a half away and about an hour or so later, a statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, was hoisted from its base in another city park. The statue of Davis, who lived in Memphis from 1875 to 1878, was erected in downtown Memphis in 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights movement."

The entire Washington Post story is here: