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The African American Civil Rights Grant Program (Civil Rights Grants) documents, interprets, and preserves sites and stories related to the African American struggle to gain equal rights as citizens in the 20th Century. This competitive grant program provides grants to states, tribes, local governments, and nonprofits. Visit their site to learn about past projects that have been funded, and find information about applying.
The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is a National Heritage Area managed by the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission. The goal of the Commission is to preserve, share and interpret the history, traditional cultural practices, heritage sites, and natural resources associated with Gullah Geechee people of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. They hold quarterly meetings to hear updates from the public, and circulate a weekly newsletter. Visit their site to learn more about their on-going projects!
A travel guide to S.C. African American cultural sites, The Green Book provides information on over 400 African American cultural sites across S.C. with this free mobile travel guide from the S.C. African American Heritage Commission. Browse locations near you or by category, right here.
The mission of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission (SCAAHC) is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina, and to assist and enhance the efforts of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Go check out their projects and initiatives here.
An article prepared by ABC's FiveThirtyEight, includes interactive timeline showing when Confederate monuments were installed (and taken down).
Sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the UofSC, The Welcome Table SC strives to help communities understand the importance of listening, storytelling and relationship-building as prerequisites to producing real and measurable change. Sessions can be created of varying lengths from one week to three weeks and for municipalities, universities and corporate partners, from half-day and full day sessions to multiple days and weeks. Contact us for more information.
Check out a summary update of Dr. Kelly Goldberg's archaeological research of slave trade sites in coastal Guinea.