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 who dismantled most of the former slave's work after the Civil War.
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 was elected to the state Legislature and Congress.
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 tuxedo he would have worn while serving in Congress, a legislative panel decided Wednesday.
Design, location chosen for Robert Smalls monument on South Carolina State House grounds
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.
South Carolina selects first monument at statehouse to honor an African American hero
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Design unveiled for Robert Smalls monument on SC Statehouse grounds
The memorial to Civil War hero Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the Statehouse grounds. Design and location set. Now, they just need a way to pay for it.
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 private school voucher program.
SC panel approves location, design for Robert Smalls monument
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Panel picks artist, location for Robert Smalls statue on SC Capitol complex
A bipartisan panel of South Carolina lawmakers chose a visible area close to the Statehouse visitor's entrance for the ...
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'Pint-sized stallion of sass' takes trot around Beaufort after galloping away from home
Two horses, one of them a pint-sized stallion of sass, decided to gallop away from their home in South Carolina and take an ...
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Hold your horses: Beaufort Police responds to horses loose on Robert Smalls Parkway
The Beaufort Police Department (BPD) responded to a ‘mane event’ in the wee hours of Monday morning. BPD shared on Facebook that two horses fled their ...
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A Complicated Past
Talk about it. Talk about it so you can understand.” Not far away, in Beaufort, South Carolina, where historians once considered a Park Service site more than 15 years ago, Robert Smalls’ ...