The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and ... The commission picked Basil Watson, from Lawrenceville, Georgia, to sculpt the statue. Watson also sculpted the memorial to desegregation ...
The memorial to Civil War hero Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the Statehouse grounds. Design and location set. Now, ...
For the first time ever, an individual African American will be permanently honored on the grounds outside South Carolina’s ...
Parker’s Kitchen hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony on Jan. 9, for its new store in Beaufort, South Carolina.
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.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African ...
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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 ...