Author: Gullah Geechee Day

3 p.m. | Catching the Learning and Having Our Say: Septima Poinsette Clark and the Sea Island Citizenship Schools

Presenters: Anette Teasdell This workshop focuses on the role Gullah Geechee women have played in community mobilization and social justice movements particularly in the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Prior

12 p.m. | Reflections of a Geechee Woman’s Southern Journey: Preservation Project of Family Heirs Property over 100 Years

Presenters: Sandra Lseibu Lesibu is a septuagenarian, who was born into segregation in St. George, South Carolina. She spent her early childhood sheltered from the “Jim Crow Laws” with her

10:30 a.m. | Wake Work in the Lowcountry: A Theory for Making Invisible Gullah Geechee Literary Culture Visible

Presenters: Raven Gadsen Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being examines the ways black being and black bodies have been continually oppressed in the aftermath of American chattel slavery, what