South Carolina Statue Honoring Black Hero Robert Smalls Will …
Jan 9, 2025 · Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man tossed aside by a Southern society determined …
South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will …
Jan 9, 2025 · 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’ statue …
Robert Smalls will be memorialized outside ... - SC Daily Gazette
May 10, 2024 · COLUMBIA — Legislators agreed unanimously to memorialize Robert Smalls on Statehouse grounds with a monument that itself will make history. The bill legislators sent …
Robert Smalls: Civil War hero to be honored with South Carolina …
Oct 23, 2024 · South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to …
South Carolina to build first monument to an African American.
Oct 23, 2024 · But Robert 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 …
South Carolina to Honor African American Hero With a Statue
Oct 23, 2024 · South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its …
Panel picks artist, location for Robert Smalls statue on SC Capitol ...
Jan 8, 2025 · A bipartisan legislative panel on Wednesday picked the artist and location for the future Robert Smalls statue on the Capitol grounds, what will be the first monument to an …
South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man tossed aside by a Southern society determined to keep …
New monument of Robert Smalls to be erected on State ... - WIS News …
Aug 29, 2024 · At a ceremony inside the State House on Thursday, McMaster and legislators commemorated the new law — which McMaster officially signed in May — directing the …
Beaufort’s Robert Smalls will be memorialized outside Statehouse
May 14, 2024 · Smalls, who was enslaved when he piloted his family to freedom to become a Civil War hero and later a state lawmaker, will be the first individual Black South Carolinian …