Local governments express concern over running afoul of Heritage Act (SC)

Gavin Jackson
Oct 19 2015 7:17 pm
Oct 19 8:13 pm

FLORENCE — Concerned over words like “white” and “colored,” a divided city council stepped over racial lines and voted Monday to move a historic World War I monument to a memorial park ...

The vote Monday to move the 87-year-old marble monument from the American Legion Post to the Florence Veterans Park followed two hours of heated debate over a restored bronze plaque that lists by race the 67 soldiers who died ...

“It’s a prominent spot on our Main Street. We don’t really want a plaque with racist implications on our Main Street,” Adams said Monday. “I understand the historical aspect of it and educational component of it, but I don’t want the word ‘colored’ on our Main Street” ...

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