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Description: Strom Thurmond, detail of inscription

TitleStrom Thurmond, detail of inscription

Creator nameBehrends, Williams

Creator name (description)Photo by Dell Upton

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date2004

Creation date (description)Original inscription on the sculpture dates to 1999

Object typeSculpture

LocationSouth Carolina State House Grounds, Columbia

SubjectsIllegitimate childrenPublic sculpture

StatusShows how sculpture's inscription (citing the number of Thurman's children) was changed when it was revealed in 2004 that Essie Mae Washington-Williams, an African American maid, was also his daughter

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Chapter 6: What Might Be Said

Dell Upton

Description: What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the...

What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South

In recent years, memorials to the broader sweep of African American history, of which South Carolina’s African American History Monument is the most elaborate, have become increasingly common and may eventually overshadow the civil rights monuments. For the moment these works offer a fresh chance to rethink memorial strategies, yet they, too, are limited by the same problems of visual...

Author

Dell Upton

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.200-212

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00240.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21065&redirecttoanchor=62689

Chapter subject tags:MemorialsThurmond, Strom, 1902-2003Slavery--HistoryWhite supremacy movements--United StatesCivil rights movements--United States--History--20th century

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