In this artwork, how is the Protests of the History elucidated?
On the day of the bust's dedication, numerous African Americans protested at the capitol. 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. That month, the bust was "damaged after someone struck it in the head with a blunt object". Soon after, two crosses were burned in Nashville, a symbolic intimidation associated with the historic Ku Klux Klan; one of these crosses was burned outside the Tennessee NAACP headquarters. 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."
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