The Meriwether Monument is a pillar erected in 1916 at John C. Calhoun Park in North Augusta, South Carolina, to commemorate Thomas McKie Meriwether (December 4, 1852 – July 8, 1876), the only white man killed in the Hamburg massacre when white supremacist militias attacked African Americans in coordinated political violence, seeking to restore the Democratic Party to power and disenfranchise African American voters.
The massacre occurred in 1876 and was part of a violent political campaign at the end of the Reconstruction era.
Protests at the monument were organized in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd as part of Black Lives Matter activism.
[3] An inscription on the marker states: "In life he exemplified the highest ideal of Anglo-Saxon civilization.
"[4] John C. Calhoun was a politician from South Carolina who served as vice-president of the United States.