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.
Statue honoring Black hero will stare down segregationist | News ...
Jan 18, 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 statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will
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.
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 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.
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.
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 …
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.
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