Lisa Elmaleh Which brings us back to Robert Smalls’ assertion of 53,000 African-Americans murdered. Unhappily, little survives of his personal papers, so they don’t provide much help in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - 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 ...

Jonathan W. White - Author, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House Before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls stealthily took command of a Confederate ...

A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War is slated to stand outside of the visitor’s entrance of the State House. The Robert Smalls ...

Discover the deep history and connection between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Penn Center, a former school for ...

The Gaillard is in the process of applying for NEA funding for the play “Finding Freedom: The Journey of Robert Smalls,” which ... of the International African American Museum, which mostly ...

On April 5, 1839, Robert Smalls, Civil War hero and five-term U.S. Congressman, was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, to his enslaved mother, Lydia Polite. In 1851, Smalls moved to the Charleston ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American Museum of History and Culture a few ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American Museum of History and Culture a few ...