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Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House ... served as a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional convention in 1868, which required compulsory education for all children, served ...
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Black History Month Minute: Robert Smalls
Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
Tensions were high on the grounds of the South Carolina State House on Thursday for a much-anticipated hearing on the state’s ongoing $1.8 billion debacle. Following the arrests of three ...
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Hear the story of Robert Smalls at Charleston Museum
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Charleston Museum will host a special storytelling event about Robert Smalls on Wednesday for young children. Museum Educators will tell the story of Robert Smalls ...
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Descendant of slave who stole rebel ship named Charleston museum head
Moore is a direct descendant of Robert Smalls, who made history by commandeering the steamboat Planter in 1862. Smalls later went on to become a South Carolina congressman during the ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
COLUMBIA — 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 ...