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 ...
S.C. monument to honor Civil War hero Robert Smalls
State lawmakers are preparing for a new legislative session, and one of their top priorities involves South Carolina’s ...
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 ...