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Today, NBF was removed from the Capitol building. Protesters made this happen.
At #MTSU, Black students have protested NBF on campus in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020...the fight continues. #ForrestHall
Below is a ✨THREAD✨ on this campus history.
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.
#OTD in 2016, #MTSU students left the 2nd public forum of the #ForrestHall Task Force due to threats & racial slurs. They protested outside the meeting room, and chanted things like, "If we don't get it, shut it down!"
#OTD in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook. Over the years, we have seen how Facebook and other social media platforms have been used to organize protests and fuel activism.
In 2015-2016, #MTSU students used social media to organize protests against #ForrestHall.
#OTD in 2015, #MTSU students marched from the Student Union commons to #ForrestHall. They carried an effigy of Nathan Bedford Forrest in a coffin to "bury" him at the ROTC building, and urge the University to rid the campus of his racist image for good. @PrjctSTAND
Author Connor @towneoneill visits "MTSU On the Record" on @WMOT_RootsRadio TONIGHT, 10/27, to talk about #Confederate iconography & #whitesupremacy, including #MTSU's own history with #ForrestHall. Learn more @ https://t.co/yyk6L48bPL, then tune in at 9:30 Central.
10/14 at 5PM CST hear from MTSU alumnus @Crutch4 about his experiences protesting #ForrestHall. Crutchfield's important voice was included in Connor Towne O'Neill's book DOWN ALONG WITH THAT DEVIL'S BONES (2020). Register for the talk at https://t.co/Zf4DVOlzQh
I’m so glad I was able to be apart of a movement for change while attending MTSU but the fight is not over yet! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 #MTSU #ChangeTheName #ForrestHall
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.
Sarah Calise, one of our archivists, recently talked with @WKRN about #MTSU's Confederate past and present in this special report. #ForrestHall
https://t.co/MB4wTJB3Zh
And here we are. #ForrestHall has survived 50+ years of protests. But as always, Black students persist. The latest protest against Forrest Hall occurred on May 31, 2020 as part of #BLM protests after the murder of George Floyd.
Let's fight for a better world. #BlackLivesMatter
Because of the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act, the Tennessee Historical Commission must approve all removals or modifications of public structures related to the Civil War. After the Sons of Confederate Veterans intervened, the THC voted against renaming #ForrestHall.
Eventually, both the Forrest Hall Task Force and the Tennessee Board of Regents voted to rename the building. This was all because of the work of Black student activists. #ForrestHall
Photo of task force final meeting.
Throughout the 2015-2016 school year, Black students and their allies held protests and participated in public forums about #ForrestHall.
#ForrestHall survived protests yet again. The next time Black students protested the building was on August 27, 2015.
MTSU's student government passed a resolution to rename the building, but then rescinded it after white students presented a petition with nearly 1,000 signatures in support of #ForrestHall.
Which brings us back to #ForrestHall. By 1990, it became the last physical Confederate symbol on campus. Amber Perkins led the group "Students Against Forrest Hall" during the 2006-2007 school year.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans, along with other interest groups, were angry about the Forrest plaque removal. MTSU ignored their requests to bring it back. #ForrestHall
Throughout the 1970s, students continued to debate Forrest on campus. But the next major achievement for Black student activists wouldn't come until 1989, when MTSU removed the Forrest plaque from the KUC after Black students protested it. #ForrestHall
In response to BSU's actions, some person or persons burned two crosses on campus the week of December 7, 1970. To this day, the perpetrators are unknown. #ForrestHall
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