Fundraising efforts to begin for statue of former Chief Justice Finney in Sumter

BY BRYN EDDY
bryn@theitem.com
Posted 3/30/24

A statue of the first African American chief justice of the S.C. Supreme Court since Reconstruction might be erected on Sumter County's courthouse lawn.

Former Chief Justice Ernest A. Finney Jr. practiced law in Sumter and was also the first …

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