Native Islander Emory Campbell is our third speaker within the Archaeology Month series being co-sponsored by Beaufort County Library, Beaufort County Planning Department, Historic Beaufort Foundation and USC-B.
Campbell grew up on Hilton Head Island as one of the 12 children of schoolteachers, Reginald and Sarah Williams Campbell. He was the 1960 valedictorian of the then segregated Michael C. Riley High School in Bluffton. He furthered his studies at Savannah State College and Tufts University. He returned home from Boston in 1968 to work along with Tom Barnwell at the nascent Beaufort-Jasper Comprehensive Health Service. In 1980, he became Executive Director of Penn Center, and set about repairing buildings on the historic campus and restoring relationships, as well as establishing the “Heritage Days” Festival. He retired from Penn Center twelve years later.
Quite the man about the media, Campbell has appeared on “60 Minutes,” “the Today Show,” and been interviewed on National Public Radio and the Public Broadcast Service. Recipient of the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award in 2005, “In recognition of 30 years as an activist for preserving the Gullah heritage, protecting the environment, and improving his community’s living conditions,” Campbell is helping mark a new trail, the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, as chairman of the National Park Service commissioners.
That new trail, the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, will be the subject of his presentation on Tuesday, October 13th beginning at 1 pm in the Hilton Head Branch Library, 11 Beach City Road.
Please join us for what is sure to be an informative and educational session on the vibrancy of the contribution of Gullah culture to American life.
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