Lawsuit challenges SC Heritage Act over monuments (SC)
BY JAMIE SELF
... The small western South Carolina city had raised more than $15,000 to remove segregation-era plaques – honoring the city’s fallen soldiers in “White” and “Colored” columns – and replace them with panels listing the names together.
Then, “the Heritage Act came along and threw a wrench into everything,” Adams said ...
Opponents threatened to have the mayor arrested if he moved forward with replacing the plaques. Historians also have raised concerns about replacing the plaques, saying they are reminders that the U.S. military once was segregated.
But Kittles said he and other leaders of the American Legion, which erected the memorial more than 80 years ago, wanted to change the plaques and received encouragement from the community ...
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