Bodies of KKK Founder & wife removed from Memphis Park

"We are pleased to say that the statues and the bodies of the general and his wife will be placed somewhere that that will be honored and respected as all American veterans and citizens should be respected,"....

                                                                A spokesman for The Sons of Confederate Veterans

     The statue of the KKK "Grand Wizard" before it was removed from a Memphis park. The bodies of Nathan Bedford Forrest and  his wife were dug up and given to the confederate group.

     Efforts in Alabama to remove similar confederate monuments have been less successful. The state fought the city of Birmingham to keep a confederate statue in a city park after the city blocked the view of the statue with plywood panels.

     All of this is thanks to the Alabama Legislature approving a law protecting confederate monuments from being removed. Governor Kay Ivey defended the law, blaming  “folks in Washington” and “out-of-state liberals” for the effort to remove the monuments, most of which were put in place long after the Civil War.