Category: Bryan House, Horry County Historical Society

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

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

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