Feb. 19: A watch party for the Democratic debate in Las Vegas will be held in room 101 of Johns Hall from 8-11 p.m. Feb. 19. Children knew they had to be respectful, and we had to go to church and schools,” Duckett said. Sat, Oct 17, 4:00 PM . Commemorating South Carolina's Civil Rights History . The Revs. Unlike many news organizations, Community Journals has made a choice to keep all of our content free and available to everyone. Feb. 3-29: The fifth annual African American History Month art exhibition is on display at the Greenville Technical College library through the end of February. Enter Unity Park. Rather, the site offers something of a soundtrack for a hard-knock Greenville neighborhood that’s heard its share of the blues. Event organizers advise attendees to bring their own folding chairs because outside seating is limited. For her part, Lake is working on getting help from a variety of sources, including city and state agencies, to repair the home that was damaged in a 2010 fire. The area, wedged between downtown and the Reedy River, is historically a predominantly African American neighborhood. Greenville’s oldest, and for more than 50 years its only black high school, was destroyed by fire in 1967. Local homes and schools you'll see gave rise to internationally significant black political and social leaders, including Jesse Jackson. Feb. 17: Greenville County Schools will host an exhibit commemorating 50 years since integration at the Upcountry History Museum. Feb. 20: Sustainable Faith in an Exploitative World with Reesheda Graham Washington will be held in the Trustees Dining Room at 7 p.m. Feb. 20. The gym was turned into a community center in 1970. Share Young Afro Excellence 1st Annual Vendor Exposition with your friends. Places: Historic Davenport House in downtown Greer. Contact Genna at gcontino@gannett.com or on Twitter @GennaContino. Gabriel Poole, known as “Father Poole,” was its first pastor. Musical guests include the Berea College Alumni Choir, the Beyond Differences Youth Choir, African drummer Ben Weston, musical minister Michael Frayer and Sarmarria and Israel Taylor. “I know of them through my family telling me stories,” Traa Lake says of such African American musicians as Sarah Vaughn, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and others who stayed in the Southernside home where, beginning in 1963, she grew up. Hi, Curious, I'm Dad. Rev.

The event free and open to the community. About 1770, Richard Pearis, an Indian trader from Virginia who was living with a chief’s daughter, received about 100,000 acres of hunting lands from the Cherokees. 165 Staunton Bridge Rd • Greenville, SC. Slave-holding never took root as much as lower parts of the state, keeping the majority population white (unlike Charleston and the lowcountry of South Carolina). Asheville's Monuments: Past, Present, & Future. Students were dancing at a senior class party when the disc jockey told them to leave the building as quickly and calmly as possible. The work of current and former Greenville Tech students, faculty and staff will also be included in the exhibit. It is a past evermore in danger of being erased. Feb. 9: First Christian Church will host African American History Month Celebration and Observance in Greenville. Neighbors looked out for one another. Feb. 8: The Five Forks branch of the Hughes Library will share stories of segregation and desegregation at its I Remember When: Black History Month event. Two blocks away, an even bigger revitalization is underway: the 65-acre Unity Park. Feb. 13: A Love Jones Open Mic Night sponsored by the Student League for Black Culture will be held in the Thomas room of the Trone Student Center at 7 p.m. Feb. 13. Feb. 12: Beyoncé and Spirituality: At the Digital Cross(roads) with Beyoncé sponsored by the Student League for Black Culture will be  in room 101 of Johns Hall at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 12. Feb. 17: The Children's Museum of the Upstate is commemorating the 50th anniversary of integration in Greenville County Schools with One Voice: A Black History Narrative. Jackson's home and the remaining black medical facility are in private hands with no plans for preservation.

The performance combines accounts from prominent African Americans with poetry, essays, comedy and campaign speeches. Enslaved people built the foundations for the city--a county that was the last in the nation to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a holiday (2006). “This was the end of the line,” he says. The dominant white narrative summarized the Civil Rights movement and twentieth century as inconsequential here, compared to Alabama, Mississippi, or even Orangeburg and other areas of South Carolina. Feb. 29: Bob Jones University will host One Voice, by Jeremiah Dew, at Stratton Hall. The city of Greenville is situated on land that was once Cherokee hunting ground, closed to colonists’ settlement. African-American history has been strong and is marked by key features of downtown Greenville. It’s a place where the unity of people, of thoughts, of all backgrounds, socioeconomic backgrounds, can converge.”, Of concerns about gentrification, he says, “That train left the station. Our team is committed to telling great stories and deepening our connection with the community we serve. Only the gym and a small music building were left standing.

Greenville. The event is sponsored by the Pre-Law Society.

Institutions and organizations throughout the Upstate will be observing Black History Month through a variety of events this February.

Her presentation at 2 p.m. is entitled “Breath, Eyes, Memory” – Reimagining racial trauma exposure, response and resiliency among African American boys and men. The location listed is the nearest community to the site. Mills kept lower-class white immigrants by marginalizing blacks to relatively few jobs, often outside the factory. The city’s Southernside Neighborhood Vision Plan said in 2011 that the demographics comprised 70% black, 23% white and roughly 5% Hispanic. Tour takers may want to only visit 6-13 in the center of downtown, rather than the longer walks from site 1 (Sterling High School) into the city and beyond the city to the old library location and cemetery. Lerone Wilder and Ronald A. Smith Sr. will lead the telling of "The Prodigal Son" from the Bible. Explore these 10 SC Sites during Black History Month. Zoom Webinar • Asheville, NC. Input your search keywords and press Enter. “The existing diversity in Southernside,” the 71-page report says, “is seen as a valued asset of the community. It was founded in 1867 by members of Greenville Baptist Church (now First Baptist Church), which had been a combined congregation of whites and blacks before the Civil War. Enslaved people built the foundations for the city--a county that was the last in the nation to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a holiday (2006). African-American history has been strong and is marked by key features of downtown Greenville. The event will present a "sermon in songs" with the theme of "from paradox to praise." Pearis set up a plantation Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy, Where: 506 S. Pleasantburg Drive, Building 105 Greenville, When: 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday-Saturday Feb. 3-29, Where: 1700 Wade Hampton Blvd. With movie theaters in a free fall, home theaters step into the spotlight, Clemson University gets $4 million to expand virtual reality education program, Upstate celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month, Community Foundation of Greenville to award $400,000 in grants to 20 local nonprofits, ‘Borat 2’ was secretly filmed in Greenville and Spartanburg, From Asheville to Laurens Road, Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack is coming in hot, City looks to transform old motels into affordable housing. Pandemic isolation may harm children’s mental health: How can parents and guardians help? Read More. Stacey D. Mills says he witnessed much worse when he became pastor of Mountain View Baptist Church, erected two years before Lake’s house was built and a half-mile away from the home at 212 Asbury Ave.