South Carolina Statue Honoring Black Hero Robert Smalls Will …
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
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.
South Carolina to build its 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...
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 Statehouse lawn.
Robert Smalls will be memorialized outside Statehouse, a century …
May 10, 2024 · COLUMBIA — A bipartisan group of South Carolina legislators wants to add a statue on Statehouse grounds commemorating Civil War hero and lawmaker Robert Smalls. If approved, the statue would be the first monument honoring an individual Black person at South Carolina’s capitol 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.
Statue Of Robert Smalls Set To Be Built In Beaufort, S.C. - NewsOne
Oct 23, 2024 · South Carolina is set to make history soon when a statue of the remarkable Robert Smalls is erected in Beaufort, a quaint city located on Port Royal Island.
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.
South Carolina to build first monument to an African American.
Oct 23, 2024 · A bust of Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South Carolina Statehouse, is displayed Reconstruction Era National Historic Park,...
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.