South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
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 ...
Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War to bring slaves to freedom. Later, he was elected to the state Legislature and Congress.
Design unveiled for Robert Smalls monument on SC Statehouse grounds
The memorial to Civil War hero Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the Statehouse grounds. Design and location set. Now, they just need a way to pay for it.
Robert Smalls statue to stand near visitors’ entrance to SC Statehouse
Civil War hero Robert Smalls could one day stand just outside the Statehouse visitors’ entrance, clad in the three-piece tuxedo he would have worn while serving in Congress, a legislative panel ...