COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a ...
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...
A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War is slated to stand ...
For the first time ever, an individual African American will be permanently honored on the grounds outside South Carolina’s State House.
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Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man tossed aside by a Southern society determined to keep Blacks inferior.
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