“As these younger generations of citizens visit the state house, they will walk by the Robert Smalls,” said state Rep. Jermaine Johnson ... This is an equal human being.

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 ... House and Senate before being ...

A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War is slated to stand ...