Tennessee lawmakers for the first time honored the work of 15 enslaved men rented by the State of Tennessee in the 1800s to build the State Capitol.

The Tennessee State Museum reports that he ... According to CNN, she called the statue a “monstrosity.” “Nathan Bedford Forrest was a brutal slave trader and the first grand wizard of ...

Keeble, the first Black representative to the Tennessee legislature ... Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest once stood. Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville ...