SELMA, Ala. -- The Selma City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to stop a group's work on a new monument honoring a Confederate general who was an early leader in the Ku Klux Klan. The council voted Tuesday night to stop all work on the monument to Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest until the courts decide whether the city or a Confederate heritage group owns the cemetery property where the monument would be rebuilt. The vote came after a group of protesters marched to City Hall. Demonstrations by civil rights...
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