South Carolina statue honouring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist

South Carolina statue honouring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist

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 supremacist who dismantled most of the former slave’s work after the Civil War. The Smalls statue would stand along the sidewalk where thousands of children on…

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2-decade-old demand fulfilled as Dr. Ambedkar’s statue unveiled at Maharshi Dayanand University – Times of India

2-decade-old demand fulfilled as Dr. Ambedkar’s statue unveiled at Maharshi Dayanand University – Times of India

ROHTAK: A long-standing demand of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) students was finally met on Friday as a life-size statue of Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was unveiled on the university campus during a memorial programme to mark his Mahaparinirvan Diwas.The unveiling was carried out by minister of social justice & empowerment, SC’s and BC’s Welfare…

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