Born into bondage, Smalls stole a Confederate ship during the Civil War to sail his family and a dozen others to freedom. He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina ... dot the ...

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 supremacist ...

He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina’s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then ... the site where a capitol building has sat for ...

Provided photo COLUMBIA, S.C. A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War is slated ... a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional ...

“The South was still carrying the burden of the Civil War,” Andrew Young ... “He went out of his way to cultivate Daddy King as a state legislator.” In the late 1960s, that distinguished ...

In North Carolina’s small towns and countryside ... the first major presidential candidate from the Deep South since before the Civil War, a political moderate and a devout Southern Baptist.

Other exhibits focus on themes like sports or the Civil War ... the State Capitol and the Legislative Building, on East Edenton Street. For more information, visit the North Carolina Museum ...

Carter honored at the Capitol: Former President Jimmy Carter ... in Eagle Butte in my home state of South Dakota. Well into his 90s, he could be found with his hard hat and tools on construction ...

One of those was John Hunter who lived to be 112 and experienced the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and Emancipation ... the North Carolina State Capitol Building is one of the finest surviving ...

Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Rep ... saying, “The GOP Civil War is in full swing. And it’s only Day 1.” Rep. Stacey Plaskett, who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands, received cheers ...

Lawmakers in the Capitol Monday ... in Texas and North Carolina. Special elections in Virginia today will provide a test for Democratic enthusiasm ahead of the state’s gubernatorial race ...