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This joint resolution requests the South Carolina Department of Transportation to rename a specific bridge located where Interstate Highway 26/United States Highway 76 crosses Interstate Highway 20 in Richland County as the "Solomon-Gibbons Memorial Bridge" in honor of Dr. Walker E. Solomon Sr. and Dr. Carlos W. Gibbons. The resolution highlights the significant contributions of these two educators and civil rights advocates, particularly their historic merger of teacher organizations in 1968, which created the largest professional organization joining in state history at that time and represented the first teachers organization in the nation to integrate. By naming the bridge after these two leaders, the resolution seeks to recognize their decades of public service in championing civil rights and promoting education. Additionally, the resolution requires that appropriate markers or signs be erected at the bridge and that copies of the resolution be presented to the South Carolina Education Association and the South Carolina Department of Transportation.

Transportation and Infrastructure

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