Nathan Bedford Forrest High School
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Nathan Bedford Forrest High School is the name of two high schools in the United States. Due to the controversy of naming a school for Nathan Bedford Forrest
, the first Grand Wizard
of the Ku Klux Klan
, many schools formerly named after him have adopted new names. The controversy regarding use of the name Nathan Bedford Forrest
reached its peak in 1998 where Richard Donaldson and Harry Zeigler were taken to court for openly protesting the use of his name and sued the school district for one hundred thousand dollars. The case was dismissed by the judge and no further proceedings on this matter have arisen.
The two that still exist are:
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both as a self-educated, innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a leading southern advocate in the postwar years...
, the first Grand Wizard
Grand Wizard
Grand Wizard was the title given to the leader of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan which existed from 1866 to 1871.In 1915, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was created, initially as a fraternal organization. The highest-ranking leader of the latter organization was the Imperial Wizard. National...
of the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...
, many schools formerly named after him have adopted new names. The controversy regarding use of the name Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both as a self-educated, innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a leading southern advocate in the postwar years...
reached its peak in 1998 where Richard Donaldson and Harry Zeigler were taken to court for openly protesting the use of his name and sued the school district for one hundred thousand dollars. The case was dismissed by the judge and no further proceedings on this matter have arisen.
The two that still exist are:
- Forrest School (Chapel Hill, Tennessee)Forrest School (Chapel Hill, Tennessee)Forrest School is a public school located in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. The school serves grades 6-12 and is part of the Marshall County School District...
- Nathan Bedford Forrest High School (Jacksonville, Florida)Nathan Bedford Forrest High School (Jacksonville, Florida)Nathan Bedford Forrest High School is a public high school in the Duval County School District located on the Westside of Jacksonville, Florida. Forrest opened in 1959 in Jacksonville's Wesconnett neighborhood, at the site of present-day J. E. B. Stuart Middle School. Forrest moved to its current...