AHC: Nathaniel Bedford Forrest civil rights hero.

Your challenge should you choose to accept it is to by the time of his death have Nathaniel Bedford Forrest be remembered as a civil rights hero using any PoD after his birth. Bonus points if you can keep him loyal to the CSA.
 
ASB. this is the founder of the KKK we're talking about, here.

Yet in 1876 he made a speech advocating voting rights for blacks in otl. So not quite asb.

How about a csa victory, perhaps a closer relationship w/ someone like Patrick Cleborne, them have him advocate for blacks on order to protect the security of the csa. How about PoD involving black confederate troops.
 
freeing his own slaves

I heard that when Forrest marched off to war he told his slaves that if they went with him and didn't desert, he would free them at the end of the war, win or lose
 

Driftless

Donor
Fort Pillow massacre? Either he ordered it, allowed it, or even if he utterly ineffectively tried to stop it (as apologists claim) - that episode remains an enduring part of his legacy.
 

jahenders

Banned
A good start. Then he might become semi-abolitionist before the war. In the war, he serves as a skillful Union cavalry officer and helps the North win the war sooner. After the war, he heads South to try to help the freed slaves. Frustrated at the depredations sometimes inflicted on freed slaves, he eventually helps form a group to protect them, disrupting lynchings or cross burnings, attacking groups attacking freed slaves, etc. They are known as the white knights of the Freedmen's Front.

First things first: Have his family move north to, say, Boston, some time after his birth.
 
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