Contemporary Cultures

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West Africans brought to the South Carolina and Georgia coasts as slaves settled on geographically isolated plantations whose owners often were absent. Such conditions allowed lowcountry slaves to...

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Jack Doyle Photos | Digital Traditions

Professor Jack Doyle spent over 30 years dedicated to the study and documentation of storytellers in the South with special emphasis on South Carolina. He was a founding member of the South Carolina...

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Helen Satterley Photos | Digital Traditions

Resident of McClellanville, SC (Charleston County). She grew up learning to speak Gullah and tells jokes and stories in the Gullah language. Her house was damaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 but...

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Veronica Gerald | Digital Traditions

Veronica Gerald’s familiarity with the South Carolina Gullah culture extends well beyond her professional career of researching and teaching about this unique community. One could say she has spent...

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Marquetta (Queen Quet) Goodwine Photos | Digital Traditions

Queen Quet (Marquetta L. Goodwine) is a published author, computer scientist, lecturer, mathematician, historian, columnist, preservationist, and "The Art-ivist." She has not only provided histo...

Berkeley County - Varner Town Indian Community

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Berkeley County - Varner Town Indian Community

The South Carolina Board of Education established a state-funded Indian school for the Varner Town Indian Community in 1938. This one-room school was closed by the state in 1963, forcing integration...

Greenville County - Working Benevolent Temple & Professional Building

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Greenville County - Working Benevolent Temple & Professional Building

The working Benevolent State Grand Lodge of South Carolina was a health, welfare, and burial benefit society for African Americans in South Carolina. The Lodge designed, built, and financed this...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Tom Grossman, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Tom Grossman, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Tom Grossman, born May 1, 1927 in Budapest, Hungary, discusses his father, who was a retired army officer, and his mother; his two sisters; the interactions of Jews and non-Jewish; antisemitism in...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Tom Grossman, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Tom Grossman, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Tom Grossman, born May 1, 1927 in Budapest, Hungary, discusses his father, who was a retired army officer, and his mother; his two sisters; the interactions of Jews and non-Jewish; antisemitism in...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Dientje Kalisky, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Dientje Kalisky, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Dientje Kalisky was born in Holland in 1938. Her grandfather and aunt were sent to a concentration camp and never returned. "When I was four we went into hiding. My parents didn't explain what was...

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