As marchers commemorated the 50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ this past weekend, in Selma, Alabama another tribute was taking place: to Nathan Bedford Forrest, the lieutenant general in the Confederate army and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Guardian’s Paul Lewis visited the Live Oak Cemetery to talk to a small band of activists with their own very special racist interpretation of history. Here’s the full story, and video is above.