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South Carolina's Confederate Dead (1879), also known as the South Carolina Soldiers Monument. [4] It was unveiled before a crowd of 15,000. [ 5 ] The monument was largely destroyed by lightning in 1882, but was replaced by the state two years later. [ 5 ]
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
The Confederate Monument (Greenville, South Carolina) is a shaft of granite topped by a marble statue of a soldier—the oldest public sculpture in Greenville—that memorializes the Confederate dead of the American Civil War from Greenville County, South Carolina. The monument is flanked by two period Parrott rifles manufactured at the West ...
The Defenders monument was graffitied with the phrases "Black lives matter" and "This is the problem #racist". [11] In July of that year, in response to the shooting, [14] the Confederate battle flag was removed from the grounds of the South Carolina State House in Columbia, South Carolina. [15]
Originally housed in the South Carolina State House, the museum relocated to the War Memorial Building adjacent to the University of South Carolina in the mid-twentieth century. In 1998, it became an agency of the South Carolina Budget and Control Board and moved to the Columbia Mills Building. The museum expanded in 2007, converting the old ...
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to ...
Leaders voted 5-4 to put the controversial sculpture on display.
Pages in category "Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in South Carolina" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .