(23 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, South Carolina – 13 September 2024
1. Medium of a portrait of Robert Smalls on display in the state house in South Carolina
2. Wide of the exterior of the South Carolina Statehouse
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) State Rep. Brandon Cox, (R) South Carolina:
"This guy is an amazing American hero. The South Carolinian- hero. Five terms in Congress, worked in the state House, state Senate. Freed himself from slavery during the Civil War by stealing a Confederate ship called the Planter."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beaufort, South Carolina – 12 September 2024
4. Medium of a bust of Robert Smalls on display in Beaufort, South Carolina
5. Wide of a horse-drawn carriage tour
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Barr, ranger, Reconstruction Era National Historic Park:
"You know, it’s the hope of what might not be. Right. That that, you know, the future is not yet written. And, you know, Robert Smalls, in many ways, writes a new future for this country that in the moment they don’t necessarily see happening."
7. Tight on a grave marker for Robert Smalls
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Barr, ranger, Reconstruction Era National Historic Park:
"He then serves in the South Carolina state legislature. He’s considered the father of Beaufort, or South Carolina’s public school system. He was one of the people really leading the charge to put that in there."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, South Carolina – 13 September 2024
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) State Rep. Jermaine Johnson, (D) South Carolina:
"This is going to be a remarkable thing to be able to see the statue. If you look around the Statehouse right now, you see young people, you see kids young and old, walking around looking at the monuments, reading the history of this great state."
10. Wide of person walking in front of South Carolina Statehouse
11. Wide of a monument to Black history in South Carolina
12. Medium of State Rep. Jermaine Johnson and State Rep. Brandon Cox standing together outside the South Carolina Statehouse.
13. SOUNDBITE (English) State Rep. Jermaine Johnson, (D) South Carolina:
"He looks like me. You know, he’s got struggles and things. But look at how he overcame those struggles. Look at his his history. And this guy can bring hope to a lot of South Carolinians who look like me."
14. Wide of a monument to Black history in South Carolina
STORYLINE:
South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn. Robert Smalls, who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War, is going to soon be honored alongside others at the capitol.
But Smalls isn’t just being honored for his audacious escape. 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 put up a valiant but doomed fight when racists returned to power and eliminated nearly all of the gains Smalls fought for.
The idea for a statue to Smalls has been percolating for years. But there was always quiet opposition preventing a bill from getting a hearing. That changed in 2024 as the proposal made it unanimously through the state House and Senate on the back of Republican Rep. Brandon Cox of Goose Creek.
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