Call My Name Coalition

Using a three-year Creating Humanities Communities grant, Dr. Lee Morrissey and Dr. Rhondda Thomas provided support to and programming for local humanities organizations that were researching, documenting, preserving, and sharing local Black history and to develop a crowd-sourcing website.

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We decided to form a Call My Name Coalition to maintain a partnership of organizations interested in documenting the African American experience at Clemson University and in the Clemson area, particularly the three adjacent counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens, in Upstate South Carolina. By recording, representing, and soliciting the experiences of generations of African American life in an extraordinary microcosm of American history and racial politics, we hope to advance and encourage appreciation, understanding, of the African American experience, and to cooperate, when appropriate, with other groups to improve the cultural activities of the community.

Current members of the coalition along with the Call My Name Project are:

Logo for the Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum. A stylized torch with a purple flame contains the profile of a woman’s face in gold. To the right, the name “Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum” appears in dark text.

Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum, Seneca, SC

The Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum (BLSCM) is Oconee County’s one-of-a-kind cultural exhibit museum focusing on the rich, sometimes turbulent history, culture, and contributions of local African Americans. The museum’s exhibits and events blend technology and tradition to create a meaningful and educational experience for all ages. The BLSCM interprets the past and present narratives of people whose chronicles will impact generations.

Logo for the Clemson Area African American Museum (CAAM). At the top is a stylized figure of an adult and child reaching upward beneath a multicolored circular brushstroke with a star. Below, the acronym “CAAM” appears in large black letters, with the full name “Clemson Area African American Museum” written underneath on a white background.

Clemson Area African American Museum, Clemson, SC

The Clemson Area African American Museum (CAAAM) is managed by the City of Clemson and is the only African American Museum in Pickens County.  The mission of CAAAM is to collect, interpret, exhibit, and preserve the rich and vibrant history of African Americans in the City of Clemson and Upstate South Carolina for the period of the arrival of the first African in this region until the present day.  There is a special emphasis on collecting books, documents, artifacts, and other cultural objects, preserving them, and interpreting them for the public by means of museum exhibitions, educational programs, lectures, public events, and publications and to encourage others to collect and preserve the history of African Americans in Upstate South Carolina and to do everything worthwhile to carry out its purpose.

Logo for the Clemson Humanities Hub. A circular emblem contains stylized letters forming “HUB” in teal and orange, with a purple arrow curving around the right side. The words “Clemson Humanities Hub” appear in orange along the bottom curve.

Humanities Hub, Clemson University

The Clemson Humanities Hub, an outreach project of the Humanities Advancement Board, intends to advance the outreach, scholarly, and teaching activities of the Humanities. It aims to coordinate and publicize off-campus Humanities events, turning the scholarly inquiry and public presentations of the Humanities fields into an outreach activity. In so doing, it hopes to act as a coordinator of campus presentations, an incubator for scholarship, and a steward of humanities pedagogy. It also hopes to offer historical perspective, cultural awareness, and considerations of value in the creation, application, and preservation of knowledge.

Logo for the Lunney Museum in Seneca, South Carolina. A black silhouette of a historic building with two chimneys and a central portico sits above the text “LUNNEY MUSEUM,” with “Seneca, South Carolina” written below.

Lunney Museum, Seneca, SC

The Lunney Museum in Seneca, South Carolina, strives to be a community focused museum by providing educational and cultural events/programs that provide entertaining and intellectually engaging content. The Lunney Museum will be a home for the community, and will function as a place for its visitors to become acquainted with the history of Seneca and the surrounding areas by: 1) Providing a safe venue for educational and cultural events and programs; 2) Maintaining the grounds and structures so that they meet national museum standards, 3) Providing educational content focused on the history of Seneca, the Lunney Family/Home, and rural southern culture, and 4) Contributing to the community by providing museum space for community organized events and meetings.

Black red and green Pendleton Foundation for Black History & Culture logo. PFB is stacked on top of H&C

Pendleton Foundation for Black History & Culture

The Pendleton Foundation Board for Black History & Culture serves
the people of the Pendleton,
South Carolina, area by strengthening and expanding the preservation and knowledge of the political, social, educational, economic and cultural history of Black South Carolinians of the Pendleton area, and through other services and activities as may be related or ancillary to and in furtherance of these purposes.

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