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.
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Design unveiled for Robert Smalls monument on SC Statehouse grounds
COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers have chosen an artist and design for a Statehouse monument to Civil War legend Robert Smalls after several months of discussions. They've also picked a ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
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.
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
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