South Carolina Statue Honoring Black Hero Robert Smalls Will Stare Down a Segregationist COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an ...

He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina’s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then put up a valiant but doomed fight when racists returned ...

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 ...