The Meriwether Monument reigns supreme in John C. Calhoun Park. A lone tribute to Thomas McKie Meriwether, the only white casualty of Hamburg, it rose four decades after the Jim Crow era, sharing its space with heated discussions about its removal in the same drawn-out era. With its surface marred by echoes of the past, it appears to welcome the theory of change in the contemporary world.
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Written by Leroy
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