Want to be a Part of the 2026 Penn Club Black History Calendar
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Want to be a Part of the 2026 Penn Club Black History Calendar

3RD ISSUE

CALENDAR BOOKLETS. This issue will honor our Veterans including Historic Leaders and those who

contributed to our Black Heritage and Black Owned Businesses.

Cost per booklet is $15.00. All proceeds will go to The Penn Club, Inc. to help enrich Penn Center, Inc.

and our heritage.

If you would like your Black Own Business to be advertised in our Black History Calendar

Booklet, FREE OF CHARGE, please contact one of the numbers below or contact any Penn Club

Member.

To pre-order your booklet(s) please call, E. Norman 843-592-0225 or email: puredesign@comcast.net

OR Elijah Abram, Sr. 843-986-3142 or email: abrammpma9@icloud.com. All checks/money orders

should be made payable to Penn Club, Inc. and mail to:

Earnestine Norman

c/o Penn Club, Inc.

P. O. Box 246

St. Helena Island, SC 29920

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Emancipation Proclamation Information
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Emancipation Proclamation Information

St. Helena Island is home to the Penn Center, originally called the Penn School, which was established in 1862 just six months prior to the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was decreed by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. and was one of the most unprecedented acts in United States history. It was the initial Civil Rights act in the United States that changed African- Americans' status from enslaved to free.

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What is Juneteenth?
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What is Juneteenth?

What is Juneteenth? The history behind the oldest commemoration of the ablolishment of slavery in the US.

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2023 Penn Center Artist in Residence
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2023 Penn Center Artist in Residence

Culture and Community at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District, a partnership between SC’s Penn Center and the UGA’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, has named Amiri Geuka Farris as its 2023 artist in residence.

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The Penn Center Executive Director Search
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The Penn Center Executive Director Search

The Penn Center is seeking a visionary and strategic Executive Director. Penn Center is a multi-service 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving Penn Center’s true history and culture through its commitment to education, community development, and social justice.

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