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On Sunday, in Charleston, South Carolina’s White Point Garden, vandals struck the Fort Sumter Memorial, a neoclassical paean to the Confederate defenders of the city. They spray-painted the ...
We built a monument to Denmark Vesey, the leader of a slave revolt in Charleston in 1822. Signs and plaques today describe feminists, civil rights activists and African-American leaders.
Rep. Bill Taylor, R-Aiken, speaks during a press conference to push for the preservation of historic monuments in the Washington Light Infantry building in Charleston on Saturday, July 18, 2020.
Charleston’s John C. Calhoun monument has its origins in a parlor at the corner of Meeting and Ann streets, the brainchild of three bored women looking to honor the loss of South Carolina’s ...
In an open letter, the American Heritage Association is calling on the city of Charleston to find a permanent home for the John C. Calhoun monument.
Five years after the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, officials in Charleston, S.C., announced a plan to remove a monument to the prominent slavery defender John C ...
Two South Carolina residents are in jail after vandalizing a Confederate monument Sunday, the Charleston Police Department said.
The South Carolina Secessionist Party wants Confederate monuments in Charleston to be repaired from the wear and tear they have suffered.
Police in coastal South Carolina say two people have been arrested after what appears to be red paint was thrown on a Confederate monument.
Officials in Charleston announced Wednesday their intention to remove a statue of John C. Calhoun, an advocate for slavery in the early 1800s, from its downtown location despite a South Carolina ...
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Two South Carolina residents are in jail after vandalizing a Confederate monument Sunday, the Charleston Police Department said.