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inspiring. engaging. enriching.schumanities.orgWINTER2008 YEAR 35
The Humanities CouncilSC
has a thirty-four year
continuous and
effective approach to
documenting, preserving,
and shedding light
on the individual and
collective achievements
and signiicant events
that have contributed
to the social and
cultural evolution of the
Palmetto State. The staff
and Board of Directors
of The Humanities
CouncilSC believe that
the voices and stories of
every South Carolinian
represent a precious
resource from which to
learn important lessons
about who we are and
where we have come
from and to guide us
as we shape our future.
The Council’s sponsored
programs, exhibits, and
documentaries present
a detailed, inclusive story
about the people of
South Carolina.
4 5 9 6Hello, Congratulations & Goodbye
Governor’s Awards in the Humanities
Key Ingredients
GrantReports
PLUS Call for Stories 2 | Strategic Planning 4 | 35th Anniversary 5 | Donors 10 | Why I Give 11 | Board & Staff 2
PReSenTeRS: More than 70 award-winning authors, poets, and presenters will appear at the 2008 SCBook Festival on Saturday and Sunday, free to the public. For a complete list of participating authors, panel topics, and scheduled appearances, please see the Web site at www.scbookfestival.org. Read about 12 participating authors on Page 3.
SHoPPInG FoR BooKS: During the festival, the exhibit Hall will host exhibitors representing the very best of local, regional, and national book dealers, including antiquarians, publishers, independent presses, writer’s collectives, individual writers, and non-proit organizations. Book lovers’ treats can be found everywhere, from your favorite author’s new book to that rare literary antique!
AuToGRAPHInG: During the festival, all of our featured authors will sign books in the exhibit Hall at the Signing Table Area. Check the Signing Schedule on the Web site for detailed information. Many exhibitors also host individual signings at their booths. You are encouraged to purchase books at the festival in the exhibit Hall but are also welcome to bring your favorite copies from home for authors to sign.
SPeCIAl evenTS: Special ticketed events will take place over the course of the weekend, including an opening night Keynote Address and Reception on Friday, February 22, Master Classes in Writing on Friday, February 22, Children’s Field Trip Day on Friday, February 22, and Brunching with Authors on Sunday, February 24. For more
information about these special eventsor to register, please see the Web site at www.
scbookfestival.org.
MoRe, InCluDInG SPoTlIGHT on 12 AuTHoRS & PRoGRAMS - PAGe 3
The Humanities CouncilSC is proud to present the12th Anniversary SCBook Festival!
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STAFF & ConTACT
Po. Box 5287 Columbia SC 29250
2711 Middleburg Drive Suite 308
Columbia SC 29204
P 803.771.2477 F 803.771.2487
email [email protected]
www.schumanities.org
www.scbookfestival.org
www.scencyclopedia.org
Randy L. Akers executive [email protected]
Paula Watkins Assistant Director & SCBook Festival [email protected]
Theresa “T.J.” Wallace Grants and Programs [email protected]
Susanna Brailsford Program Coordinator, literary Arts Partnership*[email protected]
Gail Lyles Administrative [email protected]
*The Literary Arts Partnership is a cooperative effort funded by the SC State Library, the SC Arts Commission, and The
Humanities Council SC. The program coordinator is the sole employee of the partnership.
The Humanities CouncilSC
Board of Directors
John T. Garman (Chair), Anderson
Judy Burke Bynum (vice Chair), Spartanburg
James e. Bryan, Columbia
John G. Creech (Past Chair), Greenville
Helen Fellers, Columbia
Byron e. Gipson, Columbia
Ghussan R. Greene, orangeburg
Carmen v. Harris, Simpsonville
Mary (Molly) Harts, ninety Six
Samuel M. Hines Jr., Charleston
elizabeth Holmes, Anderson
Sam e. McCuen, lexington
S.C. (Cal) McMeekin Jr., Columbia
June Murff, Aiken
Jamie S. Prosser, Murrells Inlet
The Hon. elizabeth D. Rhea, Rock Hill
David e. Rison, Charleston
Bartow (Bo) S. Shaw, Jr., Sumter
elizabeth Anne (Betty Anne) Tate, Charleston
earl J. Wilcox, Rock Hill
D. Reece Williams III, Columbia
Jane Zenger, Blythewood
Robert Hazel, West Columbia
Ex-Oficio Board Member & Board Member of the Federation of State Humanities Council
Call for Stories!
To celebrate the 35th Anniversary,
the Council requests that longtime
friends and partners contribute brief
stories about their experiences with
the Council—whether an anecdote
about a favorite program or a
memory about an accomplishment
facilitated by a Council grant or
activity.
We want to hear them all!
Stories will be published on our Web
site and in other promotional pieces.
To contribute to this part of the 35th
Anniversary celebration, please send
stories to T.J. Wallace at tjwallace@
schumanities.org or by mail to P.o.
Box 5287, Columbia, SC 29250.
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Presenting a dozen writers who will appear at the 12th Anniversary SCBook Festival. For a complete list of more than 70 authors presenting at the festival, please visit www.scbookfestival.org
TInA MCelRoY AnSA is a novelist, publisher, ilmmaker, teacher, and journalist. Ms. Ansa was awarded the 2005 Stanley W. lindberg Award for her body of work and contributions to the literary arts community of Georgia. Her most recent novel is Taking After Mudear.
JACK BASS is author or co-author of seven noniction books about the American South, including The Orangeburg Massacre. Dr. Bass will lead a session commemorating the 40th anniversary of the orangeburg Massacre.
AnDReW BIllInGSleY is a professor of sociology and African American studies and senior scholar in residence at the Institute for Families in Society at the university of South Carolina. Yearning to Breath Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families is his most recent book.
oRvIlle veRnon BuRTon was raised in ninety Six, SC and is a professor at the university of Illinois. He is the author of more than a hundred articles and the author or editor of fourteen books. The Age of Lincoln was published in July 2007 and is the recipient of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland literary award for noniction.
JoSePHIne HuMPHReYS is a beloved American author who has been the recipient of the Hemingway Foundation/Pen Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the lyndhurst Prize, and the American Academy of Arts and letters Award in literature. Her most recent novel is Nowhere Else on Earth.
MARY AlICe MonRoe is the New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House, Sweetgrass, Swimming Lessons, and her recent book for children Turtle Summer. Her next novel, Time is a River, will be released in June 2008.
South Carolina Poet laureate MARJoRY WenTWoRTH will join Rhode Island Poet laureate lisa Starr and virginia Poet laureate Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda in a Poet laureate Panel.
DAvID l. RoBBInS lives in Richmond, vA and is currently the writer-in-residence at his alma mater, the College of William and Mary. His eighth novel, The Betrayal Game, will be published in January 2008.
SAllIe Ann RoBInSon was born and raised on Daufuskie Island, SC, and she is dedicated to sharing the richness of her native Gullah culture. Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way presents the delicious dishes of the Sea Islands.
KIM Sunee is the food editor at Cottage living magazine. Her memoir Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home describes her journey from Korea to new orleans to the South of France.
JeFF vAnDeRMeeR is a two-time World Fantasy Award winner whose books of iction and edited anthologies have been inalists for the Philip K. Dick Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Hugo Award, among others. His most recent novel is Shriek: An Afterword.
PeTeR ZHeuTlIn is a freelance journalist and author whose work appears regularly in The Boston Globe and Christian Science Monitor. He is the author of Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride about the irst woman to bicycle around the world.
At A GlanceWhAT?
The 12th AnniversarySCBook Festival
WhEN? Friday, February 22(special events)
Saturday, February 23, 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (FRee and open to the public!)
Sunday, February 24, 11:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (FRee and open to the public!)
WhERE? Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, 1101 lincoln Street, Columbia
Who? More than 70 award-winning authors in solo and panel presentations and over 90 exhibitors of books and book-related services
More than 70 poets,
authors, and presenters
are participating in
the 2008 Festival! For
full list of participating
presenters, please see
the Web site at
www.scbookfestival.org.
Spotlight on 12 authors!
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hELLo, CONGRATULATIONS & GooD BYEThe Humanities CouncilSC is happy to welcome ive new Board Members. helen Fellers of Columbia is a former public librarian and current Coordinator for the South Carolina Center for Children’s Books and literacy. Elizabeth Wilson holmes is a community-minded business woman in Anderson. Bartow (Bo) S. Shaw, Jr. of Sumter is the Founder and Director of American Forest Management, Inc. D. Reece Williams III is an attorney with Callison, Tyghe, & Robinson llC in Columbia. Jane Zenger
of Blythewood is a professor in the College of education at the university of South Carolina and Director of the Teacher Quality Collaborative.
The Council also welcomes staff member Gail Lyles. lyles took over the position of Administrative Assistant in october 2007 and has already become an important
contributor to the Council’s work.
Congratulations to executive Director Randy Akers who is celebrating his 20th year with The Humanities CouncilSC. learn more about Akers’ background and read an interview with him on the Web site at www.schumanities.
org. The Council is also proud to announce several honors earned by Board Members. Congratulations to Carmen
harris of Simpsonville who was recently appointed to the organization of American Historians White House Historical Association. John G. Creech of Greenville was named to the 2008 Best lawyer list.
unfortunately, the Council bids farewell to Board Member Somers Miller of Beaufort. We thank him for his three years of service to the Council.
The Humanities CouncilSC hosted a strategic planning meeting on october 16, 2007 in Columbia.
Dr. Fred Carter, President of Francis Marion university and longtime friend of the Council, led Council staff and board members in a constructive discussion about the current role of The Humanities CouncilSC in South Carolina and how to move the Council into the future.
executive Director Randy Akers organized the strategic planning meeting to respond to a ive-year assessment of the Council made by the national endowment for the Humanities. An assessment team visited South Carolina in May 2007 to evaluate the operations and programs of The Humanities CouncilSC. The resulting report
praised the Council for its “masterful job in maximizing resources and raising its state proile through partnerships and statewide initiatives” and offered numerous suggestions for continued success and visibility.
Dr. Carter used the report from the national endowment for the Humanities as the basis for the discussion at the strategic planning meeting. He asked the group to consider such issues as whether the Council should lead the state humanities agenda through major initiatives or respond to local agendas through small community grants, whether the Council should seek state funding, and what the next major project of the Council should be.
Akers said, “We are fortunate to have
had someone of Dr. Carter’s visionary insight lead us through this intense and exciting discussion.”
The Council also conducted an online survey about its current programs and future role in the state. More than 150 people responded to the survey.
A board committee of The Humanities CouncilSC will review the notes from the strategic planning meeting and the responses to the survey, prioritize goals, and set a timeline for new projects and initiatives. The new ive-year plan will be introduced in the fall of 2008 to coincide with the 35th anniversary celebration of The Humanities CouncilSC.
Helen Fellers elizabeth Holmes Bartow (Bo) S. Shaw Jr. D. Reece Williams Jane Zenger
The Humanities CouncilSC Undergoes Strategic Planning
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The Humanities CouncilSC is pleased to announce two outstanding recipients of the 2007 Governor’s Awards in the Humanities, Senator Ernest F. hollings and Dr.
Jeffrey R. Willis.The awards were presented at a
luncheon on october 31st, 2007 at the South Carolina State Museum. over 150 individuals attended the luncheon to celebrate the honorees’ signiicant contributions to the public humanities.
Senator Ernest F. hollings is well-known in South Carolina as a dedicated public servant. After graduating from The Citadel, Senator Hollings served as an Army oficer in WWII and received a Bronze Star. He graduated from the uSC School of law and was elected as a state legislator in 1948. He later became lieutenant governor and was elected governor in 1958. In 1966, he was elected to the u.S. Senate and was re-elected six times. He was a presidential candidate in 1984. His legacy in government includes recruiting industry to South Carolina, helping establish the state’s technical education system and advocating for community health centers to provide affordable and accessible health care to low- and moderate–income Americans. As a senator, Hollings chaired the Senate Budget Committee. He was recognized for his
longstanding support for the national endowment for the Humanities and The Humanities CouncilSC.
Dr. Jeffrey R. Willis graduated from Furman university and received graduate degrees in history from the university of virginia. After teaching history for 44 years, 38 years at Converse College, he retired in 2005. Since 2006 he has been Director of Archives & Special Collections at Converse College. He has been active with both the Spartanburg County Historical Society and the Greenville County Historical Society and is the author of several books and articles on the history of upcountry South Carolina. Dr. Willis was recognized for the enormous contributions he has made to the humanities and local history through his tireless efforts as a teacher and volunteer.
established in 1991, the Governor’s Awards in the Humanities recognize outstanding achievement in humanities research, teaching and scholarship; institutional and individual participation in helping communities in South Carolina better understand our cultural heritage or ideas and
issues related to the humanities; excellence deining South Carolina’s cultural life to the nation or world; and exemplary support for public humanities programs. From 1991-2007, 46 individuals and organizations have received awards. For more information or to view a full list of winners, please see the Web site at www.schumanities.org.
35th Anniversary of The Humanities CouncilSC
The Humanities CouncilSC celebrates its 35th Anniversary in 2008. The Council was originally funded by the national endowment for the Humanities in the fall of 1972, and The Humanities CouncilSC awarded its irst grant in the spring of 1973 to the orangeburg Adult education Advisory Committee.
Dr. ernest “Whitey” lander, the only living founder of The Humanities CouncilSC, was presented with a Founder’s Award in December 2007 by executive Director Randy Akers, Board Chair John T. Garman, and Board Members Carmen Harris and elizabeth Holmes.
The Council will develop a new ive-year plan during the 35th Anniversary year. More information about new initiatives and goals will be available in the fall of 2008.
Dr. Jeffrey R. Willis and Senator ernest F. Hollings
at the Governor’s Awards in the Humanities ceremony in october.
The 2007 Governor’s Awards in the Humanities
RIGhT: Whitey Lander receives Founder’s Award from Board
Chair John T. Garman and Executive Director Randy Akers.
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Recent We the People Grants
NATIoNAL hISToRY DAY 2008
South Carolina Department of
Archives and history
Project Director: Joel WalkerAward: $5,000; cost-share: $79,740An ever-increasing number of 6th through 12th grade students statewide participate in national History Day, learning the use of historical method through projects in documentary study, performance, historical research, Web site development, and exhibit origination.
ChARLSToN CLEMENTE CouRSE
PRoJECT
Trident Technical College
Project Director: Mary Ann KohliAward: $5,000; cost-share: $5,140The Clemente Course attracts and retains economically disadvantaged students into college study. The participants study, at no cost, art, literature, history, and philosophy.
Recent Major Grants:SuMMER EThICS ACADEMY
Jackson Family Center for
Ethics and Values at Coastal
Carolina university
Project Director: Claudia McColloughAwarded: $4,100; cost-share: $22,154Jackson Family Center for
ethics and values will host their fourth annual Summer ethics Academy in July 2008. The two week-long camps for rising sixth graders in the Conway area teach ethics and decision making.
“ThE RoAD To
CIVIL WAR,
1828 – 1861”
Documentary
New York
Foundation for
the Arts (NYFA)
Project Director: Richard WormserAwarded: $7,360; cost-share: $8,487
“The Road to Civil War” is a three-part documentary for public television that will investigate South Carolina’s nulliication crisis and Calhoun among other aspects of the buildup to the Civil War.
PARTNERING FoR PuBLIShING
MCCoRMICk hISToRY
McCormickCounty historical
Commission
Project Director: Diane K. ShafferAwarded: $1,500; cost-share: $11,025McCormick County Historical Commission sponsors a collaborative community project to research and collect archival materials about Cyrus H. McCormick.
GARIBALDI ABRoAD
university of South Carolina
Research Foundation
Project Director: Don H. DoyleAwarded: $3,340; cost-share: $7,182In April 2008, The university of South Carolina offers a free public lecture and accompanying exhibit at Thomas Cooper library about Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian patriot. Internationally recognized scholar lucy Riall will speak.
LANDSCAPE oF SLAVERY: ThE
PLANTATIoN IN AMERICAN ART
PANEL DISCuSSIoN
Gibbes Museum of Art
Project Director: Angela G. MackAwarded: $5,000; cost-share: $30,600Funds support a half-day panel discussion that will bring together the six scholars who informed the exhibit Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art and wrote the essays for its accompanying publication.
“CARVALho’S JouRNEY”
Documentary
National Center for Jewish Film
Project Director: Steve RivoAwarded: $7,900; cost-share: $8,125Carvalho’s Journey will be a one-hour documentary ilm focusing on the life of Charleston native Solomon nunes Carvalho, a great nineteenth century explorer, photographer, and memoirist.
RooTS AND BRANChES:
AN AFRICAN AMERICAN
GENEALoGY CoNFERENCE
Carolina Lowcountry and
Atlantic World Program at
College of Charleston
Project Director: Simon K. lewisAwarded: $7,915; cost-share: $8,000Carolina lowcountry and Atlantic World Program hosts a conference and series of follow-up workshops that will train lowcountry residents to conduct African-American family history research.
“hEALING SPRINGS”
Documentary
Palmetto Conservation
Foundation
Project Director: Kenneth C. DriggersAwarded: $3,000; cost-share: $3,000Healing Springs is a documentary that will tell about the history and culture of the artesian spring located in rural Barnwell County known by that name.
SToRIES ABouT uS
Ministering Life in the kingdom
of God, Inc.
Project Director: Clarice BlakeneyAwarded: $5,700; cost-share: $9,400“Stories About us” is a project to record oral histories of African-American families and churches in the Pageland-Jefferson area of Chesterield County.
PoETS IN ThE FoREST
Travelers Rest Arts Mission
Project Director: nichole livengoodAwarded: $2,000; cost-share: $5,399Poets in the Forest is a series of poetry readings in Travelers Rest that will occur monthly September 2007 - May 2008.
2008 GARDEN SYMPoSIuM
historic Columbia Foundation
Project Director: John SherrerAwarded: $5,115; cost-share: $10,155Historic Columbia Foundation sponsors a Garden Symposium that will discuss South Carolina garden history and highlight the restored gardens of the Robert Mills Garden District in Columbia.
grantsMajor Grants, Mini & Planning Grants,
We the People Grants, Speakers
Bureau & let’s Talk About It
Student hunter Green-Myers of South
Aiken Baptist School (with Deborah
Green-Myers) participated in the Junior
Individual Performance category of
2007 National history Day with his
presentation: “Francis Marion, The
Swamp Fox of the Lowcountry: Tragedy
to Triumph.”
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ETV Forum: The War
South Carolina ETV
Project Director: Terry PoundAwarded: $8,000; cost-share: $26,860SCeTv will host a discussion forum about World War II in South Carolina that will correspond with Ken Burns’ new epic documentary The
War. The forum will be ilmed and broadcast on SCeTv.
Mini & Planning GrantsWhITE QuILTS AND CoVERLETS IN SouTh CARoLINA, 1750 - 1840Pendleton District CommissionProject Director: vicki FletcherAwarded: $1,500; cost-share: $4,000The planning grant funded the travel of scholar laurel Horton to three South Carolina museums to identify, examine, and document examples of early quilts in the Carolinas. The collection of data and photographs will eventually inform a collaborative exhibit and online database.
CREATIVE WRITING AND LITERATuRE IMPACT PINCkNEY PATRIoTSC.C. Pinckney Elementary SchoolProject Director: Annette FrancisAwarded: $1,500; cost-share: $1,605C.C. Pinckney elementary School, a Department of Defense School serving Fort Jackson, will organize a year-long creative writing
and literature experience for their school community. The grant funds the visits of two authors who will speak to both students and teachers.
YWCA oRAL hISToRY & DoCuMENTARY PRoJECTYWCA of Greater CharlestonProject Director: Warachal FaisonAwarded:
$1,500; cost-share: $2,255The YWCA of Greater Charleston will create a 30-minute documentary to commemorate their 2007 Centennial. oral histories with key community leaders will describe the history of the YWCA in Charleston, which is grounded in issues of race, gender, and social justice.
“SToRIES ABouT uS: oRAL hISToRIES oF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE IN WESTERN ChESTERFIELD CouNTY FRoM ThE EARLY TWENTIETh CENTuRY”Ministering Life in the kingdom of God, Inc.Project Director: Clarice BlakeneyAwarded: $1,500; cost-share: $1,500The grant funds the initial planning and research towards a major oral history project of the African American community in Pageland (Chesterield County), to correspond with their 2008 Centennial Celebration.
RuMI: FESTIVAL oF ThE SouLThe Sophia InstituteProject Director: Jessica BluesteinAwarded: $1,000; cost-share: $23,020The Sophia Institute hosts a weekend series of cultural programs celebrating the 800th birthday of the Sui mystic and poet, Jalaluddin Rumi.
“hECToR AND AChILLES: A WARRIoR REMEMBERS”Richland County Public LibraryProject Director: Clo CammarataAwarded: $1,500; cost-share:
$2,742Richland County Public library will present a free program based on the Illiad which will include a dramatic presentation, a scholar-led lecture, and discussion.
“hALLoWED GRouND”Dorchester County historical SocietyProject Director: Stan WoodwardAwarded: $1,000; cost-share: $2,931Hallowed Ground documents the history and traditions of ive South Carolina camp meetings.
Post Civil War African American Congressmen, Legislators, & JudgesAfrican American historical Alliance of South CarolinaProject Director: Jannie HarriotAwarded: $1,500; cost-share: $13,000A symposium on the topic of “Post Civil War African American Congressmen, legislators, & Judges took place on november 9, 2007 at the university of South Carolina School of law.
WALkING ThRouGh TIME WITh INDIANA JoNESGreenville County SchoolsProject Director: Thomas RiddleAwarded: $1,500; cost-share: $52,100Students in Greenville County Schools will create museum-style displays about a wide range of humanities topics. The completed displays will be unveiled during a public event featuring scholar David West Reynolds at Roper Mountain Science Center in May 2008.
TEAChERS, TEAChING, AND ThE MoVIESCollege of CharlestonProject Director: Terence BowersAwarded: $1,500; cost-share: $8,075College of Charleston hosts a two-day conference on the topic of “Teachers, Teaching, and the Movies” that will investigate the way movies inluence public perception of schools and education as well as the best way to use ilm to complement the teaching of humanities subjects.
NeIGhbORS WhO DISAppeAReD ExhIBIT AND LECTuRE SERIESFurman universityProject Director: Michael SvecAwarded: $976; cost-share: $7,035Furman university hosts a unique exhibit on the Holocaust created by Czech school children under the direction of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Neighbors Who Disappeared will appear at Furman university for three weeks in January 2008 and will then travel to 10 Greenville County Schools.
AFRICAN AMERICAN hISToRIC PLACES IN SouTh CARoLINA CuRRICuLuM GuIDE PRoJECTSouth Carolina Department of Archives and historyProject Director: leah e. BrownAwarded: $1,500; cost-share: $10,680South Carolina Department of Archives and History will create a curriculum guide as a companion piece to the African American Historic Places in South Carolina booklet. The curriculum guide will be made available to teachers statewide both online and in print form.
GRANT SPoTLIGhT:
The Civil and human Rights
Anthology Project
The Civil and Human Rights Anthology is a project sponsored by the university of South Carolina’s Institute for Public Service & Policy Research and spearheaded by scholars Marvin Ira lare and Fred R. Sheheen. The Humanities CouncilSC has given the Anthology Project three separate grants over a span of four years.
The Anthology will include an extensive set of irsthand accounts and original documents of the civil rights struggle in South Carolina in a durable book format, documenting many incidents and stories that have previously gone unrecorded. The university of South Carolina Press will publish The Civil and
Human Rights Anthology.Marvin lare has kindly provided an excerpt from the Anthology for inclusion in the Council newsletter (next
page):
Poet Glenis Redmond inspires Pinckney
students.
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“WILD WoMEN” oF
oRANGEBuRG : From the
Anthology of Civil and human
Rights in South Carolina
supported by The humanities
CouncilSC; Marvin Ira Lare,
Director and Editor
[ExCERPTS FRoM JANuARY
2005 INTERVIEW]
Gloria Rackley Blackwell:
…This “truce” was short lived however. early in the fall semester a major demonstration was mounted protesting the economic practices of the downtown orangeburg merchants. J. P. “Pete” Strom, head of the State law enforcement Division [SleD] said that in all of his years of law enforcement he had never seen such a wild time. It was just frightening. He was down there near the center of town and saw this hoard coming, led by this “wild woman!”
Hundreds of arrests were made including students, faculty and administrators from Clalin and South Carolina State along with prominent members of the black community. They had buses parked all around the square and we were taken to prison in Columbia.
Jamelle Rackley-Riley: … Yes, my incident was that in one of the sit-ins. I was bodily brought out of a restaurant. That was kind of --looking back on it I don’t remember feeling afraid. I was only ifteen at the time, or perhaps I’d turned
sixteen already, and probably weighed ninety-nine pounds, so that could have been a traumatic event. But because I don’t remember it in that way at all, obviously it wasn’t traumatic. Probably because of all the … coaching that we received from Reverend McCollom and my Mom and all the other leaders about always coming from a point of love.
When you come from a point of love, no matter what happens, no matter what the other person is doing, your reaction to that is not based on what they’re doing but based on how you’re feeling about what they’re doing, and the love that you’re generating back to them.
Lurma Rackley: … The judge was very annoyed by the time we got in there so when he called my name and I was standing there, after he heard all the circumstances from the prosecutor’s side …I guess the thing I remember most is looking at him and he was very lushed and he said, “I love all children, black and white; feed them out the same spoon; but you’ve been arrested so many times, if I see you in this court one more time, you’re going to reform school until you’re twenty-one.” [Lurma was age 14 at
the time!] That was, that was his pronouncement, and then he struck the gavel and that was it.
LET’S TALk ABouT IT : Reading and Discussion Program let’s Talk About It is not your average book club. Connecting interested readers with classic literature, resonant themes, and scholarly interpretation, let’s Talk About It creates an exciting classroom-style discussion forum where ideas and insights abound. The Humanities CouncilSC partners with the South Carolina State library to make these series available to libraries and other nonproit organizations. The Humanities CouncilSC makes $500 grants available to participating organizations to pay for scholar honoraria; the SC State library provides complete sets of books. For more information about let’s Talk About It Reading and Discussion program, please contact Susanna Brailsford, literary Arts Programmer, at [email protected].
Five New Let’s Talk About It Series are now available thanks to the generosity of the Chapin Memorial library in Myrtle Beach and the Charleston County Public library. The new series themes are:
All That Jazz• Carolina on My Mind• Masters of the Mother • TongueThey Went West• The World War I Years: • America Becomes a Super Power (video series)
Please see the Web site for more information: www.
schumanties.org or contact Susanna Brailsford.
Recent LTAI hosts:Aiken County Public libraryCharleston County Public
libraryoconee County Public librarySurfside Beach Branch library
(Horry County)The Reserve at lake Keowee
(Pickens County)
S P E A K E R S B U R E A U :
Speakers Bureau: Humanities out loud provides a roster of scholars with a wide variety of speaking topics who are available to present at public gatherings around the state. For more information about the Speakers Bureau: Humanities out loud program, please contact T.J. Wallace, Grants and Program Oficer, at [email protected].
The Humanities CouncilSC is delighted to welcome two new scholars to Speakers Bureau: Humanities out loud: Karen Devos and Joseph McGill, Jr.
karen DeVos is a retired school teacher and school librarian who recently relocated to Bluffton, SC. She received a B.A. from Kalamazoo College and an M.l.S. in library Science from Western Michigan university, both located in Kalamazoo, MI. Devos married a Michigan man (both a native and a grad!) 47 years ago and has two grown daughters and one grandson. Her career in education lasted 30 years. Devos’ great passion is to spread the word about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a wonderful and unique writer who lived and wrote in Florida. Devos is available for speaking engagements october – May. Her speaking topic is: “The Life
and Times of Marjorie kinnan
Rawlings.”
Joseph McGill, Jr. is a native of Kingstree, SC and is currently a Program Oficer for the national Trust for Historic Preservation. He works in the Southern Ofice in Charleston, SC and is responsible for the states of Alabama, louisiana, and South Carolina. Mr. McGill
During the early 1960s, Dr. Gloria Rackley Blackwell and her
daughters Lurma Rackley and Jamell Rackley-Riley were
heavily involved in the orangeburg protest activities.
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received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Professional english from South Carolina State university. He spent six years in the united States Air Force and has been employed by the national Park Service, Penn Center, and the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa. Mr. McGill is the founder of Company “I” 54th Massachusetts Reenactment Regiment in Charleston, SC (the regiment portrayed in the award-winning movie Glory). As a Civil War reenactor, Mr. McGill participates in parades, living history presentations, lectures, and battle reenactments. Mr. McGill is a member of the South Carolina State Board of Review for the national Register of Historic Places, the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, and the African American Historical Alliance. His speaking topics include: “African Americans in the Civil
War” and “54th Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry.”
Recent Speakers Bureau:
humanities out Loud hosts:Beaufort County libraryColumbia Jewish Day SchoolGeorgetown County libraryHagood Mills Historic SiteHistoric Columbia FoundationIndigo Run Communitynational Bean Market Museumnative American Heritage CommitteeSouth Carolina Center for the BookSouth Carolina Federation of MuseumSouth Carolina State MuseumStill Hopes episcopal Retirement
CommunityThe Heritage library FoundationThe oakes Retirement CommunityThe Reserve at lake Keoweeupcountry History Museum
CoMInG Soon To A ToWn neAR You!Key Ingredients is a traveling Smithsonian exhibit that explores how the food we eat connects us to our communities, heritage, and national culture. Key Ingredients is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and The Humanities CouncilSC.
The Humanities CouncilSC is happy to announce that the Key Ingredients exhibit will be making an additional stop on its South Carolina tour in 2008-2009. Key Ingredients will appear at the 2008 South Carolina State Fair in Columbia from october 8 – october 19, 2008, allowing hundreds of thousands of people to see this fun and educational exhibit. Please see the revised schedule below and take note that the tour dates have changed in several of the host communities.
FoR MoRe InFoRMATIon ABouT THe exHIBITwww.keyingredients.org
June 27 - August 10, 2008elloree Heritage Museum & Cultural CenterContact: Jane livingston2714 Cleveland Streetelloree, SC 29047(803) [email protected]
August 15 - october 5, 2008Belton Area Museum AssociationContact: Shirah Heller50 north Main StreetBelton, SC 29627(864) 338-7400 [email protected]
october 8 – october 19, 2008South Carolina State FairState Fair Grounds, ColumbiaInfo: http://www.scstatefair.org/
october 24 - December 21, 2008national Bean Market MuseumContact: Briley Altman111 Henry Streetlake City, SC 29560(843) [email protected]
January 9 - March 1, 2009Edgeield County Peach MuseumContact: Donna C. livingston416 Calhoun StreetJohnston, SC 29832(803)275-0010info@edgeieldcountychamber.orgwww.edgeieldcountychamber.orgMarch 6 - May 9, 2009
The edisto Island MuseumContact: Gretchen Smith8123 Chisolm Plantation Roadedisto Island, SC 29438(843) [email protected]
each community that hosts key
Ingredients: America By Food will have a number of entertaining and educational programs taking place
during the exhibit’s stay, from canning demonstrations to farm tours to
town-wide cake walks. Information about these exciting ancillary events
will be available on The Humanities CouncilSC Web site starting in the spring
of 2008! www.schumanities.org
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Sponsor ($500 and up)Judy Burke and B. Brant BynumD.l. Scurry Foundationelaine T. FreemanJohn T. and nancy J. GarmanSamuel H. Hines, Jr.
Patron ($250-$499)John & Dulcie CreechStephen G. & Gail l. MorrisonPatricia B. Phelpsolin & Muffet SansburyJohn G. & Ruth SproatDavid e. and Susan S. RisonCultural Council of Richland
and lexington Counties, which receives support from the national endowment for the Arts and the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of SC
Benefactor ($100-$249)Randy & Mary Alice AkersRev. & Mrs. James S. AullWilliam C. Barkeredward H. BeardsleyMargaret J. & Charles A. Bundyleland H. & Josephine R. CoxW. Marvin Dulaney
George H. FreinMary Simms o. FurmanCarmen Harris & Stephen loweSamantha HastingsCarlanna l. HendrickDianne Hillyer, In honor of Kelly and
Sarah HillyerRachel HodgesSig & Judy HuittWayne Q. Justesen, Jr. Harriet KeyserlingMrs. e. Calvert B. KloppMichael F. Kohl & Dr. Jane A.
Mclamarrah Randy lowellSally H. MitchellJohn F. lomaxeugene T. long, IIIBrenda J. McAbeeSam e. McCuenSylvia A. MclachlanMichael F. Kohl & Dr. Jane A.
Mclamarrah Page Putnam MillerJune H. MurffTheodis Palmer-McMahonBlanche l. Premo-HopkinsDonald J. Puchala George M. Reeves. Jr. Peggy & Roosevelt RatliffDonald H. Robinson & Jane W.
lawtherMr. & Mrs. H. Simmons Tate, Jr.Carlin Timmons, Fort Sumter
national MonumentPaula WatkinsJeffrey R. Willis
Associate ($25-$99)Kathleen BiggsKatherine & Marvin Cannelizabeth W. & William P. CateSharon & Maurice CherryM. e. ChristophersonBarbara Randall ClarkCurtis l. ClarkMaria A. CordovaClyde & Joan Dornbuschlesley Drucker, AF ConsultantsWilliam e. DuffordBetty elmoreHal W. Frenchvirginia Friedmanlois R. FriesGhussan R. Greeneelizabeth Gressettelinda F. Ham, o’Cain AdvertisingKristin M. Harkey & Jeffrey
JohanssonRobert D. Hazellloyd I. Hendrickseugenia A. Hooker
Diane T. HowellCharles M. & emily l. Israellarry & Barbara JacksonJames B. & Deborah JohnsonDianne JohnsonGerda M. KahnMrs. Calvert B. Kloppernest M. & Sarah landerJoan lareSarah leveretteJulianne lewisSarah & George linder IIIGilbert D. & linda J. lillyStanley e. (Gene) & nancy l.
longbrakeThomas Mackn. edward Maddenlaura Thomson McCartySuzanne ozmentnina ParrisMarian e. StrobelMrs. e.R. (Mary) TaylorMelissa Walker & Charles RebackRobert R. Weyeneth & leslie
ArnovikSusan Webbe. lloyd Willcox, IIWilliam D. & Patti Workman
Special Thanks to All of the Contributors to ThCSC 2006-2007
2008 SPoNSoRS
To DATEFor a complete and up-to-date list of our generous sponsors,please visitwww.scbookfestival.org.Principal ($5,000 or More)City of ColumbiaeTvThe Hilton Columbia CenterRichland CountySouth Carolina Arts
CommissionSouth Carolina State libraryThe State newspaperSchool of library and
Information Sciences, university of South Carolina
We the People, national endowment for the Humanities
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Benefactor ($2,500 - $4,999)Anonymousnick Kask, KaskCreativityWWDM
Patron ($1,000 - $2,499)Barnes & noble BooksellersCampaign SystemsD.l. Scurry FoundationThe Happy BooksellerHaynsworth Sinkler Boyd
P.A.
Richland County Public library
Sponsor ($500 - $999)Ann Addy, Solutions Ink!nelson Mullins Riley &
Scarborough llPogletree, Deakins, nash,
Smoak & Stewart, PCA.C. and Sally H. PriceSouth Carolina Gay and
lesbian Business Guild
Sustainer ($250 - $499)ed’s editions llCToni and Sam elkinsBelinda Gergel Theodore HoroschakRichard F. Hubbard and
Theresa l. Williams, The Hubbard Group
Maureen D. and John leeRandy lowell louise A. McFarlandWilliam G. Portnoy
Contributor ($100 - $249)Randy and Mary Alice
AkersSteve and Susan Dingman,
Mouse House, Inc. Helen FellersThomas J. and Bonnie l.
GrierCarlanna l. HendrickSusan HittIn Memory of Bobby
Watkins, Jr.T.l. and J.e. Johnson, In
Honor of the Board of Governors of the SC Academy of Authors
Gerda M. Kahn
natalie Kaufmanlang-Mekra north America
llCliterary Harlots Book ClubJohn F. longSam e. McCuenlaura S. McMahanMary emily Parrot and l.
Wayne Bryanlenora PriceThe Rackes Group, llCReporting Services, Cuby
CulbersonSuzanne RigaBo and victoria ShawJoey and Theresa (T.J.)
WallacePaula Watkins John and Marcia WatkinsJ.G. WilsonBob Wislinkski, Wiz Works
Associate ($25 - $99)Pamela DavenportKay H. Gaddis, Armory
Auction Betty Jean IrelandJamie and Gail lyleslisa lopez SnyderJohn Stucker and April
lucasChristopher vlahoplus
If you would like to
support the SCBook
Festival, please see
the Web site at www.
scbookfestival.org or
contact the ofice at 803-771-2477.
In Memoriamon behalf of the board of directors
and staff, we offer our condolences to
the family and friends of lewis P. Jones,
historian and professor emeritus at Wofford
College. Jones served as a member of the
Wofford faculty from 1946-1987, and he
received the order of the Palmetto, South
Carolina’s highest award, in 1987. lewis
P. Jones was a dedicated teacher and
a member of The Humanities CouncilSC’s
Board of Directors.
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Dr. Carlanna l. Hendrick received her
B.A. in history from Agnes Scott College,
her M.A. in history from the university of
Tennessee, and her PhD in history from
the university of South Carolina. She is
the Chair of the Humanities Division at
the Governor’s School for Science and
Mathematics and previously taught at
Maryville College, Columbia College,
and Francis Marion university.
Hendrick served as the Chair of the State
library Board, co-chair of the Governor’s
Task Force on the Arts, vice-Chair of the
South Carolina Arts Commission, and
the executive board of The Humanities
CouncilSC. She is active in church and
civic areas, an avid tennis player, and
grandmother to two absolutely adorable
granddaughters.
“The easy answer is: why not? It is, after all, tax deductible.
But a more accurate question would be why, out of all
the good and worthy causes and organizations there are,
do I choose to give to The Humanities CouncilSC? I give
because the humanities are at the center of what makes a
good life, what provides meaning to a rich life, and what
helps us all to know and understand ourselves, our heritage
and anticipate a better future. As the Persian poet said: “If
of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, and from thy slender
store two loaves alone to thee are left, sell one, and with
the dole buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.” The Humanities
CouncilSC and its programs do indeed feed man’s soul, so
how can one not support their work?”
Dr. Carlanna hendrick
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Mission To enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians.
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