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Daniel Feller, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Tennessee

White Tennessee lawmakers speak out for insurrection in honoring Confederate history

The Tennessee State Capitol. Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The ghost of the Confederacy hangs heavily over the Tennessee Legislature.

Justin Jones, one of two Black members expelled from the state’s House of Representatives in April 2023, had run afoul of House leadership before. In 2019, as a private citizen, he was arrested following his actions in protesting a bust in the state capitol honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and later Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

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