A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...

A strong supporter of what advocates call “school choice,” Weaver lobbied hard to get private school vouchers passed in the Statehouse and fought to protect them in the S.C. Supreme Court.

COLUMBIA — 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 ...

The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and the George Washington statue. But the location in the northeast quadrant of the grounds between the African American history monument and the ...

This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 and 1880. The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group studying ...

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.

A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson, of Georgia, design selected was selected to sculpt the statue. A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a ...

Smalls’ routines represent the opposite, on the court and in the classroom. One thousand is a number, but so is 500, which is how many 3-pointers he took every morning during the summer and ...