South Carolina honors Robert Smalls with first statue of a Black man at the Capitol

11.07.2025    NPR News    1 views
South Carolina honors Robert Smalls with first statue of a Black man at the Capitol

The South Carolina Capitol grounds will soon include a statue of Robert Smalls a formerly enslaved Civil War hero among the statues of five white men greater part with ties to the Civil War or Jim Crow

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