BEAUFORT, S.C. – 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 ...

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 ...

Robert Smalls’ monumental life. Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man who lived a life unimaginable to a woman holding ...

Robert Smalls made a daring sea escape during the Civil War as a slave and went on to serve five terms in Congress ... Fifty of the 100 Amazing Facts will be published on The African Americans: ...

Smalls would see a new constitution in 1895 wipe out African Americans' right to vote. He was fired from his federal customs collector job in 1913 when then President Woodrow Wilson purged a large ...

Books about Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South Carolina Statehouse, are displayed at Reconstruction Era National Historic Park ...

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 ...

A bust of Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South Carolina Statehouse, is displayed Reconstruction Era National Historic Park, Thursday ...

A bust of Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South Carolina Statehouse, is displayed Reconstruction Era National Historic Park, Thursday ...

A bust of Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South Carolina Statehouse, is displayed Reconstruction Era National Historic Park, Thursday ...