SFGate1mon
South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... Smalls dressed in a tuxedo as a ...
The Times and Democrat29d
Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ... the visitor’s entrance of the State House. The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and the George ...
Altoona Mirror23d
Statue honoring Black hero will stare down segregationist
This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between ... s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War ...
Military.com5d
The Former Slave Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Achieve His Family's Freedom
As darkness enveloped the waters of Charleston Harbor, Robert Smalls realized ... leaving the eight enslaved Black crew members, including Smalls, inexplicably unattended. What happened next ...
Post and Courier1mon
Design unveiled for Robert Smalls monument on SC Statehouse grounds
Members voted unanimously during a Jan. 8 meeting of the Robert Smalls Monument Commission ... as one of South Carolina's first Black members of Congress. For those involved, it was a long time ...
The Herald SC1mon
Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument ... Provided photo COLUMBIA, S.C. A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War is slated ...