Meet Robert Smalls." After the vote, the sponsor of the bill creating the committee, white Republican Rep. Brandon Cox, and one of its first and most ardent backers, Black Democratic Rep.

The proposal approved unanimously Wednesday by the Robert Smalls Monument Commission now goes to the General ... After the vote, the sponsor of the bill creating the committee, white Republican Rep.

Members voted unanimously during a Jan. 8 meeting of the Robert Smalls Monument Commission ... tall, short, Republican, Democrat," Johnson said. "It's just an amazing thing that we're all on ...

Republican, Democrat — it’s an amazing thing,” Johnson said. “This is South Carolina right here,” Cox said. Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 ...

Republican South Carolina Rep ... hug on the proposed site for a statue of Reconstruction hero Robert Smalls on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. Credit: AP/Jeffrey Collins Smalls ...