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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 ...

EJ Smalls posted a double-double with a team-high 14 points and 14 rebounds to lead Pemberton past Delran 45-40 in Pemberton. The Hornets (2-5) jumped out to a 21-13 lead in the first quarter and ...

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 notorious ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. South Carolina selects first monument at statehouse to honor an African American hero This image from the ...

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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This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 and 1880. (Library of Congress via AP) ...