Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... Smalls would see a new South Carolina constitution in 1895 wipe out African Americans’ right to vote in a convention led by “Pitchfork ...

But Robert Smalls isn't just being honored for his ... Smalls who fought for education for all and to keep the gains African ...

The Army commissioned the Major General Robert Smalls -- the first time the service named a vessel after an African American-- in 2007. More recently, as part of the Pentagon’s efforts to remove ...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... Smalls would see a new South Carolina constitution in 1895 wipe out African Americans’ right to vote in a convention led by “Pitchfork ...

Capitol Men, the fine new book by Philip Dray, tells the story of the men who became the first black Congressmen in the ...

African Americans exercised their right to vote ... where historians once considered a Park Service site more than 15 years ago, Robert Smalls’ elegant white home still stands downtown. Last May, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... Americans after the Civil War. Smalls ...