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Chair appointed to panel reviewing name of MTSU building named after Confederate general (TN)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 8/28/15 4:02 am EDT
Updated: 8/28/15 4:06 am EDT
MURFREESBORO, Tennessee — A professor at Middle Tennessee State University has been appointed to lead a panel that will review the name of a campus building honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The university said in June that it would engage the community on the name of Forrest Hall, which houses MTSU's Army Reserve Officer Training Corps program and is named after the rebel general, slave trader and early Ku Klux Klan member ...
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/26aea4494449482fbff6c42a8232276d/TN--MTSU-Confederate-General