This is a listing of the winners of the 2011 Preserving our Places in History awards given by the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission to recognize efforts already being made by a number of organizations to preserve the legacy of the African American experience in South Carolina and to encourage others in these efforts

South Carolina African American Heritage Commission

This is a listing of the winners of the 2010 Preserving our Places in History awards given by the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission to recognize efforts already being made by a number of organizations to preserve the legacy of the African American experience in South Carolina and to encourage others in these efforts

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2010 SCAAHC Awards 
 
On January 29, 2010, the SCAAHC presented its fifth annual Preserving Our 
Places in History awards.  The annual meeting and awards ceremony was held at 
the South Carolina Archives and History Center in Columbia.  The awards 
recognize individuals, organizations and groups, and projects that have made 
major contributions to the preservation of African American history and culture in 
South Carolina during the past year.  This year’s winners are: 
The Project Award: 
The Daufuskie Island 
Historical Foundation 
Daufuskie Island, SC 
 
 
 
 
 
The Individual Award: 
 
Andrew Agha and Nicole 
Isengarger, Mt. Pleasant, SC 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Group/Organizational Award: 
The Sweet Grass Cultural Arts Festival 
Association, Mt. Pleasant, SC 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lifetime Achievement Awards: 
Queen Quet, St. Helena Island, SC           Dr. Cleveland Sellers, Jr., Denmark, SC 
 
 
 


Preserving our places in history awards

This is a listing of the winners of the 2009 Preserving our Places in History awards given by the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission to recognize efforts already being made by a number of organizations to preserve the legacy of the African American experience in South Carolina and to encourage others in these efforts

The Fourth Annual South 
Carolina African American 
Heritage Commission  
"Preserving Our Places in 
History Awards" 
On January 22nd, 2009 the SCAAHC presented its fourth annual 
Preserving Our Places in History awards at a banquet at the Brookland 
Baptist Church Banquet & Conference Center in West Columbia. The 
awards recognize individuals, organizations and groups, and projects 
that have made major contributions to the preservation of African 
American history and culture in South Carolina during the past year. 
This year’s winners are (photos by Abel Bartley): 
 
 
 The Individual Award 
goes to Harlan Greene of 
the Avery Research Center 
at the College of Charleston. 
Mr. Greene, left, receives 
his award from State Sen. 
John Scott.  
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
The Organization/Group Award 
goes to David Williams & The 
Williams Muscadine Vineyard & 
Farm, Nesmith. Mr. Williams accepts 
their award from Ms. Mary Anne 
Jacobs of Time Warner Cable. 
  
The Project Award goes to the 
Carolina Low Country & Atlantic 
World Program (CLAW) at the 
College of Charleston. Dr. Simon 
Lewis, center, accepts the award 
from representatives from state Sen. 
Darrell Jackson’s and Rep. Leon 
Howard’s offices.  
 
 
 
 
 
The Lifetime Achievement 
Award goes to The Penn 
Center, St. Helena Island. 
Representatives from Penn 
Center accept their award from 
SCAAHC Vice Chair Jannie 
Harriot and Ms. Jacobs.  
 
  
 
 
On Friday, January 23, the second 
“Trailblazer” Award was presented at the 
Trailblazer Luncheon. The Trailblazer award 
has only been presented once. In 2007 the 
Commission presented the Trailblazer 
award to the Honorable Judge Matthew J. 
Perry for his life long work as a civil rights 
lawyer. This year’s “Trailblazers” are Rhoda 
Green for her years of work in exploring 
and promoting the Barbados/Carolina 
connection and Bobby Ginn for his 
collaboration with the City of Charleston to 
save and preserve Morris Island. 
 


The Fourth Annual South Carolina African American Heritage Commission  "Preserving Our Places in History Awards" On January 22nd, 2009 the SCAAHC presented its fourth annual Preserving Our Places in History awards at a banquet at the Brookland Baptist Church Banquet & Conference Center in West Columbia. The awards recognize individuals, organizations and groups, and projects that have made major contributions to the preservation of African American history and culture in South Carolina during the past year. This year’s winners are (photos by Abel Bartley):    The Individual Award goes to Harlan Greene of the Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston. Mr. Greene, left, receives his award from State Sen. John Scott.           The Organization/Group Award goes to David Williams & The Williams Muscadine Vineyard & Farm, Nesmith. Mr. Williams accepts their award from Ms. Mary Anne Jacobs of Time Warner Cable.   The Project Award goes to the Carolina Low Country & Atlantic World Program (CLAW) at the College of Charleston. Dr. Simon Lewis, center, accepts the award from representatives from state Sen. Darrell Jackson’s and Rep. Leon Howard’s offices.       The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to The Penn Center, St. Helena Island. Representatives from Penn Center accept their award from SCAAHC Vice Chair Jannie Harriot and Ms. Jacobs.       On Friday, January 23, the second “Trailblazer” Award was presented at the Trailblazer Luncheon. The Trailblazer award has only been presented once. In 2007 the Commission presented the Trailblazer award to the Honorable Judge Matthew J. Perry for his life long work as a civil rights lawyer. This year’s “Trailblazers” are Rhoda Green for her years of work in exploring and promoting the Barbados/Carolina connection and Bobby Ginn for his collaboration with the City of Charleston to save and preserve Morris Island.  

2011 SCAAHC Awards                All Winners  In January 2011, the SCAAHC presented its sixth annual Preserving Our Places in History awards. The annual meeting and awards ceremony was held at the South Carolina Archives and History Center in Columbia. The awards recognize individuals, organizations and groups, and projects that have made major contributions to the preservation of African American history and culture in South Carolina during the past year. This year’s winners are:                  The Project Award: The Seashore Farmers' Lodge Museum & Cultural Center            Individual Award: Dr. Karen Chandler           Lifetime Achievement Award:  Wilhemina Prince Johnson                 Herbert A. Decosta, Jr. Trailblazer Award: African American Historical Alliance of South Carolina (No Picture)  Group or Organization Award: Southeast Rural Community Outreach (No Picture)  

This is a listing of the winners of the 2008 Preserving our Places in History awards given by the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission to recognize efforts already being made by a number of organizations to preserve the legacy of the African American experience in South Carolina and to encourage others in these efforts

The South Carolina African American Heritage Commission  Third Annual "Preserving Our Places in History Awards"     On Thursday, 24 January 2008, the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission presented its third annual “Preserving Our Place in History” Awards at Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Two individuals and three organizations received awards for their work in preserving the history and culture of African Americans in South Carolina. Recipients included:   Individual Award – Clifton W. Anderson         Mr. Anderson is the chairman of the Kershaw County Clean Community Commission in Camden, South Carolina. In 1997-1998, Mr. Anderson first got involved in what was the “lower end of Camden” and found that the further down Campbell Street one walked, the less attention was paid to the area’s history and preservation. He brought this neglect to the attention of the city of Camden, but received very little encouragement in his efforts to document and preserve the area’s African-American history. With the assistance of other community members, however, he began several projects to document the history of the Campbell Street area, to clean up the area, to clean up and preserve Cedars Cemetery, and to place a historic memorial to mark the site of the historic Boylan-Haven Mather Academy for the Children of Freed Slaves. With grants, community support, and through his tireless efforts, Mr. Anderson succeeded in adding an African American Corridor to the Camden Trace, producing a brochure documenting the area’s history, and raising the consciousness of the entire Camden community about the need to preserve the African-American experience in Kershaw County.           The Commission presented awards to two projects completed by the following organizations: the Woman’s Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina and the Rock Hill Historical Marker Committee/Piedmont Regional association of Realtors.   First Project Award - Woman’s Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina. In 2001, the Woman’s Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention began a statewide project to collect, document and preserve its history. Led by its president at that time, Dr. Jacqueline Canty, and the project director, Dr. Lucille S. Whipper, the organization collected the minutes of its annual meetings dating back to 1887, conducted oral history interviews with some of its former officers and senior members, and acquired photographs and biographical sketches of many of the women who were still serving the organization. One of the most important parts of the project was the three workshops that the organization held in Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville to raise the consciousness of its members about the importance of preserving church records, programs, organizational minutes and other documents related to church history and the convention’s history. The project culminated in 2006 with the publication of Born to Serve: A History of the Woman’s Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina, the first comprehensive history of a Women’s Baptist State Convention and a model of how other organizations can develop preservation projects and write their organizational histories.  On the right: Dr. Lucille S. Whipper - project director and WBEMC statewide president       Second Project Award - the Rock Hill Historical Marker Committee and the Piedmont Regional Association of Realtors. These two groups collaborated to preserve a very important site in downtown Rock Hill, South Carolina related to this nation’s civil rights history. On January 31, 1961, ten Friendship Junior College students sat in at the McCrory’s Department store at 135 East Main Street in downtown Rock Hill, South Carolina. Nine of the students refused bail and served thirty-day jail sentences. They became known as the “Friendship Nine” and their strategy of “Jail, No Bail” to dramatize the injustice of segregation in public accommodations for African Americans became a model for the Freedom Rides that followed in 1961.A year ago, in January 2007, forty-six years after the Friendship Nine incident in Rock Hill, the Historical Marker Committee and the Piedmont Regional Association of Realtors commemorated the 1961 event by erecting a state historical marker and by making a part of the McCrory’s building a permanent historic site to recognize and honor the Friendship Nine. In addition to preserving the site, the groups have preserved the original lunch counter and the nine stools with the names of the members of the Friendship Nine on them, and created a Heritage Hall that includes a permanent exhibit composed of text and photographs documenting this historic event in American history.     Organization Award - 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company I Civil War Reenactment Unit. The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment travels all over the state of South Carolina doing reenactments, teaching school children and others about the often unknown role of African-American soldiers in the Civil War, and engaging in authentic demonstrations of soldiering in the American Civil War. Most importantly, the members of the 54th  Massachusetts Regiment provide their services to schools and community groups for free. In a state where most re-enactors represent the Confederacy and where the African-American presence in the Civil War is often ignored, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment provides public education, preserves an important part of South Carolina history, and brings to the public’s attention each July one of the most important battles of the Civil War—the Battle of Fort Wagner. By commemorating this battle—which established the bravery and the ability to fight of African-American soldiers at a time when most Americans doubted their courage--and participating in a variety of public events related to the history of African Americans in the Civil War, the 54th has become the leading organization in the state promoting the preservation of the history of African Americans in the American Civil War.        Lifetime Achievement Award - Ronald Daise   Ronald Daise is an educator, author, entrepreneur and historian. His productions, recordings, and writings throughout his 30-year professional career have documented Gullah heritage in an exemplary manner that transcends stereotypical points-of-view of Gullah culture. Since 2004 he has served as Brookgreen Gardens’ Vice President for Creative Education and he is also a member of the newly appointed Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission. He began chronicling Gullah history and lore in 1978 during his employment as a reporter for the Beaufort Gazette newspaper. His feature stories of elderly residents of St. Helena Island, South Carolina were culled for inclusion in his first book, Reminisces of Sea Island Heritage. This book and others that he has published have become valuable resources for Gullah studies. From 1986-1993, he and his wife Natalie scripted the book’s contents into Sea Island Montage, a theatrical production which they toured throughout the United States –at a time before public appreciation of Gullah culture was popular, He was the co-star and cultural consultant for the Nick Jr. television’s award-winning Gullah-Gullah Island. Most recently, he has published Gullah Branches, West African Roots. This book is unparalleled in its artistic promotion and preservation of Gullah heritage and culture through stunning photographs, poetry, memoirs of personal experiences, spirituals and short stories. According to Congressman Jim Clyburn, who wrote the foreword for the book, stated that “Ron affords readers an unabashed celebration of a vibrant culture .  . . that turns what was once the embarrassment of having enslaved ancestors to one that demonstrates the value of their ancestors’ talents and treasures.”                      

This is a listing of the winners of the 2007 Preserving our Places in History awards given by the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission to recognize efforts already being made by a number of organizations to preserve the legacy of the African American experience in South Carolina and to encourage others in these efforts

The South Carolina African 
American Heritage Commission  
 
 
 
"Preserving Our Places in History Awards" 
   
On the evening of Thursday, January 25, 2007, during its annual 
meeting in Columbia, the South Carolina African American Heritage 
Commission presented the second annual Preserving Our Places in 
History awards.  The awards recognized individuals, an organization 
and a project that have demonstrated or made an outstanding 
contribution to the preservation and interpretation of African American 
history and culture in South Carolina during the past year. 
  
Cecil J. Williams, Bernie Wright, and Senator Kay Patterson.  Photo by Abel Bartley 
  
Cecil J. Williams of Orangeburg received the individual award for his 
ongoing work as one of the state's most significant photographers. His 
work documents African American life in South Carolina from the 
1940s to the recent present.  
  
 Emory Campbell photo by Abel Bartley 
  
Emory Campbell of Hilton Head was presented with the Lifetime 
Achievement Award for his lifelong commitment to the preservation of 
the African American experience in South Carolina. He is executive 
director emeritus of the Penn Center on St Helena Island.  During his 
twenty-year tenure, he organized the nationally recognized Penn 
Center Heritage Days, revised the Center's family farm program, and 
expanded its museum program to assist writers, filmmakers and 
authors. He continues to do African American heritage tours of the Sea 
Islands, to work with other communities to preserve the property 
rights of African Americans on the Sea Islands (in the face of creeping 
development), and to write and publish about Gullah-Geechee history 
and culture.  
  
  
  
Marvin Dulaney, Jennie Stephens, executive director of the Center for Heirs' Property 
Preservation,  
and Michael Allen. Photo by Abel Bartley 
  
The Center for Heirs' Property Preservation in North Charleston 
received the organizational award for its work in providing education 
and legal services to African Americans in the Lowcountry on how to 
preserve heirs' property. Created in 2005 by the Coastal Community 
Foundation, the Center provides pro bono legal counsel, court 
representation, family mediation, and community based education to 
enable its clients to actively protect and preserve their property rights. 
  
 
Rep. Lonnie Hosey (far right) and Bernie Wright present the Project Award to (from l 
to r)  
McKenzie Kubly, Ashley Guinn, Linday Crawford, and Patricia Shandor.  
Not pictured are Dr. Robert Weyeneth, Lindsay Maybin, Santi Thompson, and Louis 
Venters.  Photo by Abel Bartley 
  
The Camden African American Heritage Project completed 
by seven graduate students in Dr. Robert Weyeneth’s  History 712 
"Historic Preservation Practicum" class at the University of South 
Carolina received the project award. The Camden African American 
Heritage Project not only documented African American history and 
Culture in Camden, South Carolina (including the discovery of a little 
known slave revolt planned in the city in 1816), the project also had 
the real world impact of being used by public officials in Camden to 
secure a $100,000 grant to establish a local African American history 
museum.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 


The South Carolina African 
American Heritage Commission  
Third Annual "Preserving Our 
Places in History Awards" 
  
  
On Thursday, 24 January 2008, the South Carolina African American 
Heritage Commission presented its third annual “Preserving Our Place 
in History” Awards at Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Spartanburg, 
South Carolina. Two individuals and three organizations received 
awards for their work in preserving the history and culture of African 
Americans in South Carolina. Recipients included: 
  
Individual Award – Clifton W. Anderson         
Mr. Anderson is the chairman of the Kershaw County Clean Community 
Commission in Camden, South Carolina. In 1997-1998, Mr. Anderson 
first got involved in what was the “lower end of Camden” and found 
that the further down Campbell Street one walked, the less attention 
was paid to the area’s history and preservation. He brought this 
neglect to the attention of the city of Camden, but received very little 
encouragement in his efforts to document and preserve the area’s 
African-American history. With the 
assistance of other community 
members, however, he began several 
projects to document the history of the 
Campbell Street area, to clean up the 
area, to clean up and preserve Cedars 
Cemetery, and to place a historic 
memorial to mark the site of the historic 
Boylan-Haven Mather Academy for the 
Children of Freed Slaves. With grants, 
community support, and through his 
tireless efforts, Mr. Anderson succeeded 
in adding an African American Corridor 
to the Camden Trace, producing a 
brochure documenting the area’s 
history, and raising the consciousness of 
the entire Camden community about 
the need to preserve the African-
American experience in Kershaw 
County. 
  
  
  
  
  
The Commission presented awards to two projects completed by the 
following organizations: the Woman’s Baptist Educational and 
Missionary Convention of South Carolina and the Rock Hill Historical 
Marker Committee/Piedmont Regional association of Realtors. 
  
First Project Award - Woman’s Baptist Educational and 
Missionary Convention of South Carolina. In 2001, the Woman’s 
Baptist Educational and 
Missionary Convention began a 
statewide project to collect, 
document and preserve its 
history. Led by its president at 
that time, Dr. Jacqueline Canty, 
and the project director, Dr. 
Lucille S. Whipper, the 
organization collected the 
minutes of its annual meetings 
dating back to 1887, conducted 
oral history interviews with 
some of its former officers and 
senior members, and acquired 
photographs and biographical 
sketches of many of the women 
who were still serving the 
organization. One of the most 
important parts of the project 
was the three workshops that 
the organization held in Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville to raise 
the consciousness of its members about the importance of preserving 
church records, programs, organizational minutes and other 
documents related to church history and the convention’s history. The 
project culminated in 2006 with the publication of Born to Serve: A 
History of the Woman’s Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention 
of South Carolina, the first comprehensive history of a Women’s 
Baptist State Convention and a model of how other organizations can 
develop preservation projects and write their organizational histories.  
On the right: Dr. Lucille S. Whipper - project director and WBEMC statewide 
president 
  
  
  
Second Project Award - the 
Rock Hill Historical Marker 
Committee and the Piedmont 
Regional Association of 
Realtors. These two groups 
collaborated to preserve a very 
important site in downtown 
Rock Hill, South Carolina 
related to this nation’s civil 
rights history. On January 31, 
1961, ten Friendship Junior 
College students sat in at the 
McCrory’s Department store at 
135 East Main Street in 
downtown Rock Hill, South 
Carolina. Nine of the students 
refused bail and served thirty-
day jail sentences. They 
became known as the “Friendship Nine” and their strategy of “Jail, No 
Bail” to dramatize the injustice of segregation in public 
accommodations for African Americans became a model for the 
Freedom Rides that followed in 1961.A year ago, in January 2007, 
forty-six years after the Friendship Nine incident in Rock Hill, the 
Historical Marker Committee and the Piedmont Regional Association of 
Realtors commemorated the 1961 event by erecting a state historical 
marker and by making a part of the McCrory’s building a permanent 
historic site to recognize and honor the Friendship Nine. In addition to 
preserving the site, the groups have preserved the original lunch 
counter and the nine stools with the names of the members of the 
Friendship Nine on them, and created a Heritage Hall that includes a 
permanent exhibit composed of text and photographs documenting 
this historic event in American history. 
  
  
Organization Award - 54th 
Massachusetts Volunteer 
Infantry Regiment, Company 
I Civil War Reenactment Unit. 
The 54th Massachusetts 
Volunteer Infantry Regiment 
travels all over the state of South 
Carolina doing reenactments, 
teaching school children and 
others about the often unknown role of African-American soldiers in 
the Civil War, and engaging in authentic demonstrations of soldiering 
in the American Civil War. Most importantly, the members of the 54th 
 Massachusetts Regiment provide their services to schools and 
community groups for free. In a state where most re-enactors 
represent the Confederacy and where the African-American presence 
in the Civil War is often ignored, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment 
provides public education, preserves an important part of South 
Carolina history, and brings to the public’s attention each July one of 
the most important battles of the Civil War—the Battle of Fort Wagner. 
By commemorating this battle—which established the bravery and the 
ability to fight of African-American soldiers at a time when most 
Americans doubted their courage--and participating in a variety of 
public events related to the history of African Americans in the Civil 
War, the 54th has become the leading organization in the state 
promoting the preservation of the history of African Americans in the 
American Civil War.      
  
Lifetime Achievement Award 
- Ronald Daise   
Ronald Daise is an educator, 
author, entrepreneur and 
historian. His productions, 
recordings, and writings 
throughout his 30-year 
professional career have 
documented Gullah heritage in 
an exemplary manner that 
transcends stereotypical points-
of-view of Gullah culture. Since 
2004 he has served as 
Brookgreen Gardens’ Vice 
President for Creative Education 
and he is also a member of the 
newly appointed Gullah/Geechee 
Cultural Heritage Corridor 
Commission. He began 
chronicling Gullah history and 
lore in 1978 during his 
employment as a reporter for the 
Beaufort Gazette newspaper. His 
feature stories of elderly 
residents of St. Helena Island, 
South Carolina were culled for 
inclusion in his first book, Reminisces of Sea Island Heritage. This book 
and others that he has published have become valuable resources for 
Gullah studies. From 1986-1993, he and his wife Natalie scripted the 
book’s contents into Sea Island Montage, a theatrical production which 
they toured throughout the United States –at a time before public 
appreciation of Gullah culture was popular, He was the co-star and 
cultural consultant for the Nick Jr. television’s award-winning Gullah-
Gullah Island. Most recently, he has published Gullah Branches, West 
African Roots. This book is unparalleled in its artistic promotion and 
preservation of Gullah heritage and culture through stunning 
photographs, poetry, memoirs of personal experiences, spirituals and 
short stories. According to Congressman Jim Clyburn, who wrote the 
foreword for the book, stated that “Ron affords readers an unabashed 
celebration of a vibrant culture .  . . that turns what was once the 
embarrassment of having enslaved ancestors to one that 
demonstrates the value of their ancestors’ talents and treasures.” 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 


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