COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) The University of South Carolina has hired internationally acclaimed sculptor Basil Watson to cast a bronze statue inspired by the first Black students admitted to the university since Reconstruction.
Robert Anderson, Henrie Monteith Treadwell and James Solomon Jr. to be honored with sculpture designed by Basil Watson on grounds of University of South Carolina.
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USC's board of trustees voted on Friday, Feb. 18 to create a statue on campus honoring the three Black students who desegregated the university in 1963.