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5 years ago today, Black students started the latest wave of protests against #ForrestHall at #MTSU, the ROTC building named after Confederate general & KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest.
This is a thread confronting the Confederacy on campus.
This is a thread confronting the Confederacy on campus.
#ForrestHall was built in 1954 and named Nathan Bedford Forrest Memorial Hall. The name fit with the University's push in the 1940s and 1950s to align itself with Lost Cause mythology and Confederate symbolism.
Under the presidency of Q.M. Smith, MTSU formed a strong link between the name "Blue Raiders" and N.B. Forrest. Like Forrest, our mascot was raiding the Blue Army, or Union Army. Forrest's likeness appeared everywhere on campus by the 1950s. #ForrestHall
