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Welcome to the Gullah Society

Created to preserve, promote, and perpetuate Gullah Geechee culture and traditions
We aim to develop methods that will provide Gullah Geechee people with skills in identifying and preserving sites, historical data, artifacts, and objects associated with Gullah Geechee people and culture, for the benefit and education of all. We accomplish these goals by working with communities to preserve African and African-American burial grounds, identity and history.
LATEST NEWS...
Expression through fashions of the African Diaspora, Saturday 4/28 @ 12pm
Join us for our latest exhibition at the City Gallery, April 3 - May 6.
Anson Street Burials project update and Community Conversation schedule
Answering the Rattling article by Charleston Magazine writer Maura Hogan, Feb 2018
IAAM Center for Family History events February 2018
Gullah Society staff trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC, Oct 27-28, 2017.
Dance of the Ancestors: Egungun Masquerade Exhibition at the City Gallery, Charleston Sept 28 - Oct 29, 2017
Gullah Society awarded grant for work recording and preserving sacred burial grounds
Gullah Society work featured on the Center for Family History, International African American Museum (IAAM) website
A recent message from Rovena Owens, who visited Zion Cemetery, on Monrovia Street, to find the burials of her great grandfather, his mother-in-law and other relatives, illustrates the importance of this work.

"I am excited that someone has interest in this cemetery. It took me a while to find it and I was so unhappy to see its condition. I have found death certificates that say that they [eight relatives] were buried at Zion Presbyterian Cemetery. I have not found one for Sidney Eckhardt yet. He was my Grandfather's uncle. He was in the state legislature during reconstruction. He was referred to by the family as "The Senator". I did read that he partook in a streetcar sit-in I think during the 1860s. He also held an office in the Segar Makers Association. Sidney died in Florida but I think that he was brought back to be buried in Zion with his wife and family. My mother attended the funeral of her aunt Henrietta Rodrigues in 1952 and said that the cemetery was in bad shape then."
 
"If possible I would like to see these graves for myself. I could not find them when I went into there a few years ago. Thanks so much to you and the Gullah Society for doing this."


(Rovena Owens Aug 6, 2017)
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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Staff & Board Members
    • History of The Gullah Society
    • Dr. Ade Ofunniyin (Dr. O)
    • Gullah Geechee Culture
  • Sacred Burial Ground Projects
    • Daniel Island
    • New First Missionary Baptist Church Edisto Island
    • Monrovia Street Cemeteries
    • ANSON STREET BURIALS
  • Art & Exhibitions
    • African Diaspora
    • Sixteen Crowns
    • Dance of the Ancestors: Egungun Masquerade
    • WOKE: Rattling Bones, Conversations, Sacred Rites and Holy Places
  • News & Media Coverage
  • Genealogy
    • African American Resources
    • American Indian Resources
    • Florida Resources
    • Georgia Resources
    • South Carolina Resources
    • Lowcountry Africana
    • South Carolina History Society
  • Research & Scholarship
    • Conference presentations
    • Ongoing research
  • Contact Us
  • SUPPORT US
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