The building, Forrest Hall, is named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general who was known for slave trading and believed to be the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, according to ...

Forrest supporters point to his speech before the all black “Jubilee of Pole Bearers” in Memphis in 1875 where he spoke of putting black citizens into jobs at law offices, stores and farms and ...

The Crieve Hall property running along Interstate 65 where a controversial statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest once stood has seen the removal of 13 flags honoring the Confederacy ...