Segregation-era war memorial divides town

In a small South Carolina city, a war memorial honoring fallen soldiers from World War I and World War II divides them into two categories - "white" and "colored".

Welborn Adams, Greenwood's white mayor, believes the bronze plaques are relics of the South's scarred racial past and should be changed in the spirit of equality, replaced like the "colored" water fountains or back entrances to the movie theater that blacks were once forced to use.

Yet the mayor's attempt to put up new plaques was blocked by a state law that brought the Confederate flag down from the Statehouse dome in 2000. The law forbids altering historical monuments without approval from legislators.