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Senate committee advances bill for monument recognizing early voluntary school integration in Charleston and Fayetteville
Summary
The Senate committee voted to pass legislation to place a privately funded monument on the Capitol grounds honoring the voluntary integration of schools in Charleston and Fayetteville, measures that supporters say predate and expand the narrative around Hoxie’s 1955 integration.
Senators on the Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs voted to pass Senate Bill 489 on a voice vote after brief testimony from local school leaders, advancing a separate monument to recognize voluntary school integration in Charleston and Fayetteville.
Senator Greg Ledding, District 30, told the committee the bill responds to concerns that a recently approved Capitol monument to Hoxie (Act 251 of 2025) told only part of the story. “Fayetteville is often credited, inaccurately, as being the first,” Ledding said, arguing…
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