PATRON – Selma High School in Alabama originated in a building erected by Freemasons! [photographs]

Robert the title of the story provided your answer to your question on slavery. If slavery was meant to be mentioned then it would be in the story, right? Undoubtedly you don’t realize that Free Masons were brick & stone workers and Etc. Now why would you need a slave when you are going to do all the work yourself? I’m not being ugly here, but if it makes you feel better they probably had a slave cooking Bar-B-Q for lunch to the workers? But, most likely their wives provided the meals to the Free Masons. The school back then would have been for white only. Because they didn’t believe in teaching the slaves to read or write because their only purpose was to work the Plantations and you didn’t need education for that.
And since you believe in the development of Selma’s Civil War & Civil rights then you would want to push and urge the black folk not to hide History but promote it. Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest “Wizard Of Saddle” was Selma’s true hero. He took on the Yankees by himself when they raided Selma by running a herd of horses down the middle of the city trying to run them over and shot all his bullets at them.
And most black people thought Forrest hated blacks but not true! During a Civil War battle raid some black slave women was trying to run for cover and got caught in the middle of the gunfire battle and General Forrest risked his own life and rode out in between the black women and the Yankees & gunfire and shielded the women and helped them to safety. Now I ask you, does that sound like a man with hate or compassion for mere black slave women to risk his own life??? And the many ignorant people of true history continue to believe that Forrest started the Ku Klux Klan to wipe out the blacks which is not true! He did start the KKK because he wanted to “scare away” the carpetbaggers & certain blacks who chose to side with the Northern carpetbaggers trying to take over the Southerners land because they couldn’t pay the tax, and they used the help of certain blacks. Therefore it was only scare tactics. But when other KKK groups started to form and begun to hang the certain blacks for helping to take away people’s land was when Forrest told them to quit and stop the killings because that was not what the Klan was formed to do. When it got out of hand and they wouldn’t listen to reason was when Forrest quit the klan and said he would not be a part of such killings. Then he informed certain law makers of what was going on with the Klan to stop their wrong doings! Now I ask you, does that sound like a man who hated blacks??? So, Selma needs to promote Forrest because of the wrong information that they have been led to believe? The Northerners hated Forest because they could never kill him during battles even though 22 horses were shot out from under Nate. They used the Klan title as a way to get back to him and he became the “scape goat” for their purpose to smear his War Character & Honor as one of the greatest Civil War Generals. And by the way, Forrest let all his slaves go free before the Civil War started.
*The Civil War was NOT about slavery! Slavery was only one(1) issue. The war was fought over The Secession of Rights against Northern Aggression(Yankees) trying to tell Southerners how and what to do.
*Most Southerners had freed their slaves before the war started and most of the North had their slaves!!! When the war was over it was asked of Northern General Grant if he was going to free his slaves, and his reply was “It’s hard to find good help” meaning he did NOT…