One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The North Charleston Coliseum first opened its doors in 1993. Employees Jeanette Smalls, Charlie Harris and Ollie Fountain ...

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 supremacist ...

Members voted unanimously during a Jan. 8 meeting of the Robert Smalls Monument Commission ... the 147-foot side-wheeler steamship the Planter in Charleston Harbor and sailed it to the Union ...

Two artifacts will be on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield to celebrate Black ...

The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and the George Washington statue. But the location in the northeast quadrant of the grounds between the African American history monument and the ...

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 notorious ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV ... including one led by Robert Smalls. These daring acts of liberation qualified Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie's inclusions in the program. The event will begin ...

A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson, of Georgia, design selected was selected to sculpt the statue. Provided photo COLUMBIA, S.C. A monument honoring a former Black ...