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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
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 notorious white supremacist who ...
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Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House ... served as a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional convention in 1868, which required compulsory education for all children, served ...
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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 individual African American has decided Robert Smalls' statue should be staring down a ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
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.