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 ... - WIS 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 · 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.
S.C. monument to honor Civil War hero Robert Smalls - WRDW
1 day ago · The monument will sit atop a base – which the committee suggested include panels with biographical information about Smalls – and a quote from a speech he gave during South Carolina’s 1895 ...
South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will ... - ABC News
2 days 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 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 will be memorialized outside Statehouse, a century …
May 10, 2024 · Smalls, who was enslaved when he piloted his family to freedom to become a Civil War hero and later a state lawmaker, will be the first individual Black South Carolinian recognized with a statue on Statehouse grounds.
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...
Design, location chosen for Robert Smalls monument on South Carolina ...
2 days 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 ...
Panel picks artist, location for Robert Smalls statue on SC Capitol ...
2 days ago · 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.. Lawmakers chose Jamaican-born, Georgia-based sculptor Basil Watson to design the statue. Watson's work in the state includes a bust of teacher and Civil ...