In preparation for today’s wrap-up discussion I’ve drawn up a list of highlights of the Jubilee Project from September 2012 — the anniversary of the publication of the Emancipation Proclamation — to now — the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. It’s a pretty long list, but I think worth publishing in full.
Jubilee Project—some highlights so far
September 2012—Avery Center Black Power conference
October 2012—College of Charleston Theatre Department, Flyin’ West
–SC State University, Stanback Museum, “Africa Revisited” exhibition
–Upcountry History Museum, “Freedom Stories” mini-conference
November 2012—Penn Center, Annual Heritage Days, 150th anniversary celebration
New Year’s Eve/Day—Watch Night Services; Emancipation Day parade
January 2013—Gibbes Museum, “Witness to History” exhibition
–Charleston Symphony Orchestra Spiritual Ensemble, “Freedom Rides On” concert
–Clemson University, Integration at Clemson commemoration
–Southern American Studies Association conference
–St. Helena Branch Library, “Reflections of St Helena Island” presentation
February 2013—CSO Spiritual Ensemble, “Ode to the Fisk Jubilee Singers” concert
–College of Charleston, “Unity through Song,” Claflin University Concert Choir
–Magnolia Plantation, ASALH luncheon
–Charleston Stage, A Woman Called Truth
–Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission, “Heritage Days”
–Clark Atlanta University, WEB Du Bois conference
–College of Charleston, “Education for Emancipation” seminar
–College of Charleston, Nancy McGinley issues an apology on behalf of CCSD at College of Charleston’s “Education for Emancipation” seminar commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the desegregation of South Carolina public schools
–Charleston Preservation Society, Civil Rights Era Panel Exhibit Opening
–Caw Caw Interpretive Center, “Rice and Liberty: The Stono Rebellion”
–Riley Center for Livable Communities, “Tru Emancipation een de Gullah/Geechee Nation”
–Penn Center, “Tribute to the Civil Rights Movement”
March 2013—Agnes Scott College, Collegium for African American Research conference
–College of Charleston, African Literature Association conference (including “I Have Known Rivers” ceremony)
–College of Charleston, “African American Belonging and Tourism Justice” lecture
–PURE Theatre, The Mountaintop
April 2013—College of Charleston/Circular Church, Fisk Jubilee Singers
–Ella Baker Day symposium
–College of Charleston, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” reading
–Lecture by Edna Medford at 77th Annual Meeting of the University of South Carolina’s South Caroliniana Society
–Preservation Society, Thomas Mayhem Pinckney Alliance Reception
–Preservation Society, Modern Civil Rights Era site marker unveiling
–Charleston, Charleston Area Justice Ministry kick-off event
May 2013—Columbia, The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) “Lift Every Voice” forum on collecting, archiving, preserving and teaching the Civil Rights movement
May/June 2013—Mount Pleasant, Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival
–Circular Church/Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Becoming Harriet Tubman
July 2013—Reenactment of Assault on Fort Wagner
–Fort Sumter/Fort Moultrie Trust, Fort Wagner panel discussion
–City of Charleston, Unveiling of plaque commemorating USCT role in Assault on Fort Wagner
August 2013–Gullah/Geechee Nation International Music and Movement Festival 2013
–College of Charleston, Exhibition in honor of WEB Du Bois
–College of Charleston, Commemoration of March on Washington
–Slave Dwelling Project, overnight stay at College of Charleston
–Avery Center, “Unenslaved” exhibition, paintings by Jonathan Green
– Preservation Society, S.H. Kress historic site marker unveiling
September 2013— Claflin University, “From Brown (1954) to Brown (1963) and Beyond: Challenges of Advancing Educational Equity in South Carolina” symposium
–Preservation Society, Progressive Club historic site marker unveiling
–University of South Carolina, Desegregation Commemoration (including appearances by Andrew Young, Nikky Finney, et al.)
–McKissick Museum, “If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus” exhibition
–College of Charleston/Middleton Place, Lowcountry Rice Culture forum
October 2013—Preservation Society, Hospital Workers’ Strike historic site marker unveiling
– Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, Passages art show and sale
November 2013—College of Charleston, Gettysburg Address panel discussion
–Avery Center, Slavery at USC presentation
–Penn Center, Annual Heritage Days Celebration, “Eyes Still on the Prize” symposium
–SC State, Civil Rights: Then, Now, and When…?
Jubilee Project forthcoming events
2014 Brown at 60/ Civil Rights Act at 50
2014 Slave Dwelling Project conference, Savannah, GA
2015 Decoration Day at 150
2016 Port Cities and Public Memory conference
2017 50 Years of Desegregation at College of Charleston
2018 Reconstruction Revisited: South Carolina’s Progressive Constitution (1868)
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