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War Memorial Separates Dead by Race, Divides Southern City

JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) โ€” Along Main Street in a small South Carolina city, there is war memorial honoring fallen World War I and II soldiers, dividing them into two categories: โ€œwhiteโ€ and โ€œcolored.โ€ Welborn Adams, Greenwoodโ€™s white Democratic-leaning mayor, believes the bronze plaques are relics of the Southโ€™s scarred past and […]

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