South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

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H. 4322

STATUS INFORMATION

Concurrent Resolution
Sponsors: Rep. Rose
Document Path: LC-0253CM-GT25.docx

Introduced in the House on April 9, 2025
Introduced in the Senate on April 24, 2025
Adopted by the General Assembly on May 6, 2025

Summary: Solomon-Gibbons Memorial Bridge

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date Body Action Description with journal page number
4/9/2025 House Introduced (House Journal-page 12)
4/9/2025 House Referred to Committee on Invitations and Memorial Resolutions (House Journal-page 12)
4/16/2025 Scrivener's error corrected
4/23/2025 House Committee report: Favorable Invitations and Memorial Resolutions (House Journal-page 41)
4/24/2025 House Adopted, sent to Senate (House Journal-page 76)
4/24/2025 Senate Introduced (Senate Journal-page 9)
4/24/2025 Senate Referred to Committee on Transportation (Senate Journal-page 9)
4/24/2025 Scrivener's error corrected
5/1/2025 Senate Recalled from Committee on Transportation
5/5/2025 Scrivener's error corrected
5/6/2025 Senate Adopted, returned to House with concurrence (Senate Journal-page 74)

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H. 4322

Introduced by Rep. Rose

S. Printed 5/1/25--S.   [SEC 5/5/2025 3:54 PM]

Read the first time April 24, 2025

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A concurrent RESOLUTION

TO REQUEST THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION NAME THE PORTION OF THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 26/UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 76 BRIDGE THAT CROSSES INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 20 IN RICHLAND COUNTY "SOLOMON-GIBBONS MEMORIAL BRIDGE" AND ERECT APPROPRIATE MARKERS OR SIGNS AT THIS BRIDGE CONTAINING THESE WORDS.

Whereas, Dr. Walker E. Solomon Sr. and Dr. Carlos W. Gibbons were leaders in education and civil rights advocates; and

Whereas, during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Dr. Solomon served as the executive secretary of the Palmetto Education Association and Dr. Gibbons served as the executive secretary of The South Carolina Education Association. When faced with turbulent, unjust violence, both answered the call to chart a new course and draft a new chapter of history in merging both teacher organizations together, thus setting an example for the children of a new generation that we as South Carolinians and moreover, as Americans, can do all things better together; and

Whereas, by this merger, made effective April 1, 1968, these organizations became known as The South Carolina Education Association, creating a more perfect union than just black and white. The merger also created the largest joining of two professional organizations in state history to that date, with a combined membership of nearly twenty-five thousand educators across South Carolina; and

Whereas, with this merger, our great State saw the first teachers organization in the nation answer the call to integrate, a history of which we are proud; and

Whereas, it would be fitting and proper to recognize Dr. Walker E. Solomon Sr. and Dr. Carlos W. Gibbons for their decades of public service in championing civil rights, promoting education, and achieving so much for all people of South Carolina by naming a bridge in Richland County in their memory. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the members of the South Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, request the South Carolina Department of Transportation name the portion of Interstate Highway 26/United States Highway 76 bridge that crosses Interstate Highway 20 in Richland County "Solomon-Gibbons Memorial Bridge" and erect appropriate markers or signs at this bridge containing these words.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to the South Carolina Education Association and that a copy be forwarded to the South Carolina Department of Transportation.

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