Dr. Clarence Sexton, the founder of Crown College, said that he wants to display the statues to fully show what led to America as it is today. Dr. Sexton said he would show controversial statues, including those of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan who enslaved Black Americans and killed Union soldiers during the Civil War.
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12 сен 2024