South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will …
13 hours ago · 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.. The Smalls statue would stand along the sidewalk where thousands of children on field trips walk from ...
South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will ... - ABC News
19 hours ago · 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 Statue Honoring Black Hero Robert Smalls Will …
13 hours ago · 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.
Robert Smalls statue to stand near visitors’ entrance to SC …
2 days ago · Depicting Smalls in the same way shows that he was equal among historic figures, Johnson said. “He needs ‘no special defense,’” Johnson told reporters, referencing a famous quote by Smalls. “Put him up there as an equal to everyone else.” A sculpture of Robert Smalls by Pate Studio. (Provided/Robert Smalls Monument Commission)
Design, location chosen for Robert Smalls monument on South …
11 hours ago · COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) — A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like. The ...
Robert Smalls statue to stand near visitors’ entrance to SC …
14 hours ago · 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,
South Carolina statue honouring Black hero Robert Smalls will …
12 hours ago · The proposal approved unanimously Wednesday by the Robert Smalls Monument Commission now goes to the General Assembly while another group works to raise the millions of dollars needed for Smalls to join the more than two dozen statues and memorials — many to Confederates and other racists — that dot the site where …
Panel picks artist, location for Robert Smalls statue on SC Capitol ...
1 day ago · 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.. Lawmakers chose Jamaican-born, Georgia-based sculptor Basil Watson to design the statue. Watson's work in the state includes a bust of teacher and Civil ...
Robert Smalls will be memorialized outside Statehouse, a century …
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 Thursday to the governor’s desk creates a commission to design the monument, decide where to put it, and raise money to pay for it.
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...