Image via Yelp 5 Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue; Nashville, Tennessee
This statue, unveiled in 1998, features Confederate general Nathan Bedford in a cartoonish sneer atop a gold-colored horse. While thousands of visitors every year feel the need to stop and take pictures with the statue, locals are ashamed that such an overt sign of racism exists in their city, since the statue was created by Jack Kershaw, a co-founder of the League of the South, a white nationalist and white supremacist organization, and former lawyer to Martin Luther King Jr.’s killer. While many calls have been made to have the statue removed, it still stands as a bizarre reminder of the country’s controversial past.
