South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will …
1 day 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 …
1 day 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 ... - ABC News
1 day 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 …
1 day 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 …
S.C. monument to honor Civil War hero Robert Smalls - WRDW
19 hours ago · It’ll be the first monument outside South Carolina’s State House of an individual African American – Robert Smalls. ... Latest News. S.C. monument to honor Civil War hero Robert Smalls.
Design, location chosen for Robert Smalls monument on South
1 day 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 …
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)
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.
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...
South Carolina statue honouring Black hero Robert Smalls will …
1 day 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 …
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