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 should be staring down a notorious white supremacist who dismantled most of the former slave’s work after the Civil War.
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 to keep Blacks inferior.
South Carolina to build first monument to an African American.
Oct 23, 2024 · Robert Smalls escaped slavery by stealing a slaveowner’s ship and later became a South Carolina political leader, championing equal rights and literacy. Soon he’ll be honored as the first individual Black person to get a statue on the Statehouse lawn.
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 individual African American on the South Carolina Statehouse complex.
South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will ... - ABC News
Jan 9, 2025 · 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.
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 steal a slaveholder’s...
South Carolina to build first monument to an African American.
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 steal a slaveholder's ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War.
Robert Smalls will be memorialized outside ... - SC Daily Gazette
May 10, 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 recognized with a statue on Statehouse grounds. It will also be the first monument period since dedication of the Law Enforcement Memorial in 2006.
SC commission has 5 months to choose design, location for Robert Smalls …
Aug 29, 2024 · COLUMBIA — The clock is ticking for a state panel to approve a design and choose a patch of land for a monument to Civil War hero and lawmaker Robert Smalls. The monument will be the first on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds to …
Robert Smalls statue to stand near visitors’ entrance to SC …
Jan 8, 2025 · COLUMBIA — Civil War hero Robert Smalls could one day stand just outside the Statehouse visitors’ entrance, clad in the three-piece suit he would have worn while serving in Congress, a legislative panel decided Wednesday.