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 ...
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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 ... Smalls would see a new South Carolina constitution in 1895 wipe out African Americans' right to vote in a convention led by "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman.
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
The proposal approved unanimously Wednesday by the Robert Smalls Monument Commission ... convention and tried to put Smalls and other African Americans back in their place.