Then I realized that they were talking about a brief exchange that had happened just behind the Jefferson Davis monument in Memphis Park the previous night. I was standing three feet away.

But the Jefferson Davis monument was ignored ... Last night, in removing these monuments, Memphis reset community values. It was its own kind of emancipation proclamation. This journey isn ...

About 1.5 miles away, a similar operation was underway at the statue of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis in Memphis Park ... Calls to remove monuments started after Dylann Roof killed ...

But while the Volunteer State is conservative at the state level, Memphis is not. The city is nearly two-thirds African American, and the presence of monuments to Davis, who led a traitorous ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest on his horse, and sale of the city's easement on Fourth Bluff Park, which had a statue of Confederate President Jefferson ... Memphis. Though both the Forrest and Davis ...

Van Turner has a secret: He knows the whereabouts of the controversial Confederate statues removed last year from two parks in Memphis ... President Jefferson Davis — once stood.

Similar pre-emption laws barring the removal of these monuments are ... the past five years. Memphis first sparred with the state over the names of Confederate, Jefferson Davis, and Nathan Bedford ...

MEMPHIS — After city officials found a ... which had a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, to a nonprofit group. Immediately afterward after dark, that group brought in a crane ...

The other monument, which paid tribute to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, was removed soon afterward from Memphis Park. By selling the parks to a private entity, Memphis was able ...

But the visibility of their monuments often belie the way their ... We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have." Jefferson Davis was a man of many words.

Mississippi celebrates the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. Here's what to know about the state holiday ...