Forum to Discuss Preserving Gullah-Geechee Region

  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A session at this week’s Congressional
Black Caucus Foundation’s legislative conference in Washington
focuses on the Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor along the nation’s
Southeastern coast.
    South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn invited officials with the
corridor to the Thursday session to discuss the work of preserving
the sea island culture of slave descendants.
    Michael Allen of the National Park Service and Emory Campbell,
the chairman of the Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor, address the
session.
    The corridor runs from southeastern North Carolina to northern
Florida. The sea island culture known as Geechee in both Florida
and Georgia and Gullah in the Carolinas is threatened by rapid
coastal development.