SC State Capital Grounds-African American Monument. (re-blogged
from afroeticcreations.wordpress.com) A South Carolina African
American History Monument chronicling the experiences of African
Americans in South Carolina now stands on the grounds of the
State House in Columbia. The bronze and granite sculpture was
dedicated in March 2001 and includes 12 panels that depict
milestones in South Carolina African American history. The
monument tells a story from the beginning of enslavement to the
Middle Passage to Emancipation Proclamation to the Civil Rights
era to the great achievements of South Carolina’s African
Americans in various professions including jazz musician Dizzy
Gillespie, tennis player Althea Gibson and former South Carolina
Supreme Court Justice Ernest Finney. - SC State Capital Grounds-
African American Monument (afroeticcreations.wordpress.com)