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Penn Center - A History Preserved (Paperback)
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The Gullah people of St. Helena Island still relate that their
people wanted to "catch the learning" after northern abolitionists
founded Penn School in 1862, less than six months after the Union
army captured the South Carolina sea islands. In this broad history
Orville Vernon Burton and Wilbur Cross range across the past 150
years to reacquaint us with the far-reaching impact of a place
where many daring and innovative social justice endeavors had their
beginnings. Penn Center's earliest incarnation was as a refuge
where escaped and liberated enslaved people could obtain formal
liberal arts schooling, even as the Civil War raged on sometimes
just miles away. Penn Center then earned a place in the history of
education by providing agricultural and industrial arts training
for African Americans after Reconstruction and through the Jim Crow
era, the Great Depression, and two world wars. Later, during the
civil rights movement, Penn Center made history as a safe meeting
place for organizations like Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern
Christian Leadership Conference and the Peace Corps. Today, Penn
Center continues to build on its long tradition of leadership in
progressive causes. As a social services hub for local residents
and as a museum, conference, and education complex, Penn Center is
a showcase for activism in such areas as cultural, material, and
environmental preservation; economic sustainability; and access to
health care and early learning. Here is all of Penn Center's rich
past and present, as told through the experiences of its longtime
Gullah inhabitants and countless visitors. Including forty-two
extraordinary photographs that show Penn as it was and is now, this
book recounts Penn Center's many achievements and its many
challenges, reflected in the momentous events it both experienced
and helped to shape.
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