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The Gullah achieved another victory in 2006 when the U.S. Congress passed the "Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Act"; it provided US$10 million over 10 years for the preservation and interpretation of historic sites in the Low Country relating to Gullah culture. [39]
The Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is a federal National Heritage Area in the United States along its southeastern coast, stretching from North Carolina to Florida. The intent of the designation is to help preserve and interpret the traditional cultural practices, sites, and resources associated with Gullah-Geechee people.
It was determined through a market study that the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor has the potential to bring in $34 billion in tourism for the four states that make up the corridor ...
Geechie (and various other spellings, such as Geechy or Geechee) is a word referring to the U.S. Lowcountry ethnocultural group of the descendants of enslaved West Africans who retained their cultural and linguistic history, otherwise known as the Gullah people and Gullah language (aka, Geechie Gullah, or Gullah-Geechee, etc).
The Gullah Geechee people make up one of the oldest and most extraordinary communities in the United States. But if you’ve never heard of them, it might be because their history is often sifted ...
The Gullah Geechee people make up one of the oldest and most extraordinary communities in the United States.
A made-for-television movie, focused on the Gullah culture of St. Helena Island and surrounding South Carolina Sea Islands, featuring the Hallelujah Singers. 2003 There Is a River, This Far by Faith (episode 1) PBS [17] 2016 A Vanishing History: Gullah Geechee Nation: Vice News
This inaugural four-culture workshop will take place 4 to 8 p.m., June 14 at the Georgia Southern Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Center, located on Georgia Southern’s Savannah campus ...