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Thurmond monument on fast track in South Carolina
In Columbia, seven months after proposing a Strom Thurmond monument, lawmakers praised clay replicas while an African American history monument lags. Commission members push for a representative design reflecting slavery, Reconstruction, and civil rights, with final plans due for legislative approval in 1999.
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Columbia
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Monument Commission
Sen
Darrell Jackson
Thurmond
Statehouse
Assembly Street
Strom ‘Thurmond
Cobb-Hunter
Glenn McConnell
Charleston