[2] Kenneth P'pool, who chaired the Nathan Bedford Forrest Bust Committee of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 1973 (P'pool reportedly also earlier supported the candidacy of George Wallace for president in 1968), the late Tennessee state Senator and Sons of Confederate Veterans Joseph E. Johnston Camp 28 member Douglas Henry (D-Nashville), and the late Civil War expert and collector Lanier Merrit are attributed with heading up the project to install a bust representing Nathan Bedford Forrest inside the Tennessee General Assembly building.

[3] Henry first proposed Joint Resolution 54 (1973) in the Tennessee Senate calling for a bust of Confederate Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest to be installed within the state capitol, which passed on April 13, 1973.

[4] The portrait by Joy Garner had been commissioned in 1973 for Travellers Rest by the Joseph E. Johnston camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

[4] The Nathan Bedford Forrest bust was cast by the Karkadoulias Bronze Art Foundry in Cincinnati, Ohio, and installed in the Tennessee State Capitol on November 5, 1978.

[4] More protests were organized by Black Tennesseans for Action in February 1979 after they were unsuccessful in gaining a meeting with Republican governor Lamar Alexander to discuss the issue.

[4] In October 1980, "Tex Moore, grand dragon of the Tennessee chapter of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and others held a news conference in front of the bust.

"[4] Democratic Congressman Jim Cooper and state Representative Craig Fitzhugh suggested that the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust should be removed from the Tennessee capitol in the wake of the 2015 Charleston church shooting, a horrific event in which nine African Americans were murdered in their church by a young white supremacist, Dylann Roof.

[21] Representative John Ragan (R-Oak Ridge) filed his House companion bill, HB1227, on February 11, 2021, and initially signed on Reps. Paul Sherrell (R-Sparta), Jay D. Reedy (R-Erin), Rusty Grills (R-Newbern), Jerry Sexton (R-Bean Station), Kent Calfee (R-Kingston), Todd Warner (R-Chapel Hill), and Clay Doggett (R-Pulaski) as prime co-sponsors of the House bill seeking to cancel out and revise the Tennessee Historical Commission membership.