The South Carolina Capitol grounds will soon include a statue of Robert Smalls, a formerly enslaved Civil War hero, among the statues of five white men, most with ties to the Civil War or Jim Crow.

Last fall when I was traveling in South Carolina, my friend Robin, who is a civil rights attorney, told me about Robert Smalls and showed me a plaque in his honor in Charleston. I have to admit I had ...

(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 ...

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A bill to honor Civil War hero, Reconstruction leader and Congressman Robert Smalls sailed through South Carolina's General Assembly this year almost as deftly as the Planter, a Confederate ship ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress. Before those laudable accomplishments, though, Smalls had to secure his ...

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 ...

A bill to honor Civil War hero, Reconstruction leader and Congressman Robert Smalls sailed through South Carolina's General Assembly this year almost as deftly as the Planter, a Confederate ship ...