Forrest slave market historic marker damaged, to be repaired
A two-year-old historical marker noting the location of the Downtown slave market owned by Nathan Bedford Forrest was snapped off at its base sometime Saturday night, July 18, the second historical marker this month to be destroyed.
A similar marker outside the Midtown location of the old Antenna Club nightspot on Madison Avenue was broken off its stand in a similar manner during the Fourth of July weekend.
The slave market marker was unveiled in April 2018 as part of ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
It stood at the southwest corner of Adams Avenue and B.B. King Boulevard near a 1950s era historical marker that noted the land was the site of Forrest’s Memphis home and made no mention of the slave market.
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