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The Fort Pillow Massacre

Back in the day on April 12th, 1864, Confederate soldiers under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest carried out a massacre at Fort Pillow. North of Memphis, Tennessee, the former stronghold of the confederacy was the site of a Civil War battle. A union garrison of black and white soldiers held the fort and refused to surrender it despite Forrest’s demands. An official post war investigation into the events that transpired found that the Confederacy had committed atrocities by slaying most of the union soldiers after they had surrendered. Only a fraction of African-American union soldiers survived the wanton killings as Forrest described the Mississippi River as “dyed with the blood of the slaughtered. In spite of this simple historical fact, James Loewen’s study of historical markers and monuments in “Lies Across America” shows that Fort Pillows denies a massacre even took place.

And Nathan Bedford Forrest? He continued to terrorize blacks after the war as the first imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history