Last fall when I was traveling in South Carolina, my friend Robin, who is a civil rights attorney, told me about Robert Smalls and showed me a plaque in his honor in Charleston. I have to admit I had ...

The Robert Smalls statue will be the first monument to honor an African American person. ¹South Carolina will soon erect its first individual statue for a Black person on its Statehouse lawn in its ...

Next year, a new monument honoring Civil War hero Robert Smalls will be unveiled outside the South Carolina Statehouse. Smalls escaped slavery during the war and went on to serve in the U.S. House of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Gov. Henry McMaster placed his signature Thursday on a bill that will celebrate a South Carolina Civil War hero on the State House grounds. A ceremonial bill signing for a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A bill awaiting Gov. Henry McMaster’s signature will memorialize Robert Smalls on State House grounds with a monument. There are 27 monuments surrounding the State House dedicated to ...

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...

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 prominent ...