"We would hope that the example shown here with the safe removal of the monuments and the safe removal of the remains will serve as an example of what we can do to move this city forward," said Shelby County Commissioner Van Turner, the president of Memphis Greenspace, Inc., the nonprofit that owns the park. "The reality of it is if we don't come together we won't have the city that we all love."
Remains of Confederate general and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest removed from Memphis park
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Removed statues of Forrest, Davis given to Confederate group
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