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Partly cloudy this evening, then becoming cloudy after midnight.
A monument to Robert Smalls, sculpted by Atlanta-based artist Basil Watson.
Provided to the SC Daily Gazette by the Robert Smalls Monument Commission A monument to Robert Smalls, sculpted by Atlanta-based artist Basil Watson.
Provided to the SC Daily Gazette by the Robert Smalls Monument Commission The best way to ensure that South Carolina's public monuments and memorials tell a full, accurate story of our state's rich history is to focus not on editing or removing existing ones but erecting new ones that highlight important but underrepresented aspects of who we are and where we came from.
To that end, it was a good sign two years ago when a bill to honor Civil War hero, Reconstruction leader and Congressman Robert Smalls with a statue on the Statehouse grounds sailed through the Legislature.