- Collection:
- Civil rights films from USC's moving image research collections
- Title:
- Quest for Civil Rights: Penn School
- Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
- Date of Original:
- 1980-11-30
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights--South Carolina
Segregation in education--United States
Schools--United States--History
Penn Center Historic District (Saint Helena Island, S.C.)
Civil rights movement - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
- Medium:
- motion pictures (visual works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/H264
- Description:
- SCAR T-20: Penn School Col, Sound, 29 minutes. John W. Gadson, Sr. is interviewed by Dr. Grace Jordan McFadden of the University of S. C. Gadson describes aspects of the culture of the Sea Islands including language (Gullah), land ownership (heirs property), and religion (praise houses). In Beaufort, South Carolina, Mrs. Agnes C. Sherman, curator of the "York W. Bailey Museum" at Penn Community Services Center, is interviewed. She discusses the foundation of the Penn School and its development as the first black industrial training (trade) school. More of Gadson interview. He speaks of the importance of the Penn Community Services Center in the development of many civil rights campaigns. Note: from the series "Quest for Human / Civil Rights - Oral Recollections of Black South Carolinians."
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17173.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17173coll18/id/204
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright University of South Carolina. All rights reserved.
- Extent:
- 28:54
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights Films from Moving Image Research Collections
- Contributing Institution:
- University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections - Rights:
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