Fifteen named to MTSU panel to study the naming of Forrest Hall (TN)
Published: November 9, 2015
Fifteen people .. will serve as members of the task force that will consider whether to change the name of MTSU's Forrest Hall ...
The university announced in June that it would engage the community on the name of the campus building that houses MTSU's Army Reserve Officer Training Corps program and is named after Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. The decision came following a mass shooting at a historically black South Carolina church that prompted a national discussion about Confederate iconography on public property.
Forrest, a Confederate officer praised for his tactical methods, has also drawn attention recently because of his early ties to the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. A state of Tennessee historical panel is reviewing whether a bust of Forrest should be removed from the State Capitol ...
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