Born into bondage, Smalls stole a Confederate ship during the Civil War to sail his family ... backers, Black Democratic Rep. Jermaine Johnson, walked to the proposed site of the statue.

Born into bondage, Smalls stole a Confederate ship during the Civil War to sail his family ... backers, Black Democratic Rep. Jermaine Johnson, walked to the proposed site of the statue.

Aaron, the last active major-leaguer who once played in the Negro ... of the Aaron family, stands at the base of the Grand Staircase on the first floor. It is separated from the statues of Babe ...

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 ...