South Carolina's military museum is considering a name change that better covers all of its artifacts.
FILE - In this July 10, 2015 file photo, the curator of the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum carries the Confederate Battle flag that flew in front of the South Carolina Statehouse past family members of people killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., as it is removed from the Capitol grounds in Columbia, S.C. . The official name of the museum now is the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum.
When recently working on renewing its national accreditation, the American Alliance of Museums Accreditation said the museum could make it easier on itself by eliminating “Confederate” from its name. But any change in the name will have to come from lawmakers and that would be an uphill fight. A law passed in 2000 when the state moved the Confederate flag from atop the Statehouse dome to a pole by a monument on the capitol lawn requires a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to alter any historic names or monuments.
When Roberson made his 15-minute budget presentation Tuesday to a handful of South Carolina House members, he mentioned the Civil War just once, answering a question from a representative about a project to conserve its existing collection of uniforms.
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