Bill calls for Fort Sumter, site of civil war's beginning, to become national park

Tim Scott, first black US senator from deep south since Reconstruction, introduces measure to create country’s 60th national park

Tim Scott, the first black US senator from the deep south since Reconstruction, is proposing that the site where the civil war began be raised in status to that of a national park.

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Source: Guardian Environment