A rendering of the new Robert Smalls Leadership Academy timeline exhibit. Here are abbreviated versions of 10 historical facts that will be included on the Robert Smalls Leadership Academy mural: 1.

Titled “DEFIANT: The Story of Robert Smalls,” the illustrated book chronicles the story of Beaufort’s own Robert Smalls, telling his story as a true superhero in classic superhero style.

Robert Smalls was born in Beaufort in 1839 to Lydia Polite, an enslaved woman. Smalls later purchased his childhood home, located at 511 Prince Street, from his former master.

The LSV-8 was named in honor of Robert Smalls, who was a 23-year-old slave during the Civil War when he commandeered a Confederate transport steamer loaded with armaments and used the vessel to ...

Members voted unanimously during a Jan. 8 meeting of the Robert Smalls Monument Commission to select Atlanta-based artist Basil Watson as the artist of a monument to Smalls, culminating a two-year ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, Sc. (WTOC) - Friday marks the 185th birthday of Beaufort hero Robert Smalls. To celebrate, a local artist is throwing a birthday party that all are welcome to attend. At Friday ...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man tossed aside by a Southern society determined to keep Blacks inferior.

That’s Robert Smalls – character, drive and commitment.” Smalls went on to serve the Lowcountry people as member of the SC House of Representatives, the SC senator and then served 4 terms as a US ...

The mural will end in with the projected opening of the new building with the new name “Robert Smalls Leadership Academy” in 2023, funded with $345 million from a 2019 school bond referendum ...

For most of its existence, Robert Smalls was the only public high school for Black children in Beaufort County. Students would travel from as far as Daufuskie , Sheldon, and Orangeburg to attend.