Where Genealogy Meets Politics...

Dr. Gatch and the fight to create the Beaufort-Jasper Comprehensive Health Services Center.
Photos by Diane Arbus

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“Let Us Now Praise Dr. Gatch” (4 photos)

This is an album of photos from an article on Beaufort County Doctor, Dr. Donald Gatch of Sheldon and his fight to create the Beaufort-Jasper Comprehensive Health Services Center in 1969.  My Great Uncle Lawrence Washington - President of the NAACP-Beaufort at the time, Reverend I.D. Newman of Orangeburg, Former Senator Fritz Hollings and Dr. Donald Gatch tour Beaufort and Jasper County visiting the poor in what would be dubbed by the NATIONAL PRESS, "The Hunger Tour."  Thirty years ago in Beaufort, people were dying of third world diseases like Pellagra. It was the Dr.'s efforts alongside others that changed all that.

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Where Genealogy Meets Politics...

Dr. Gatch and the fight to create the Beaufort-Jasper Comprehensive Health Services Center.

Photos by Diane Arbus

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“Let Us Now Praise Dr. Gatch” (4 photos)

An Article on Beaufort County Doctor, Dr. Donald Gatch of Sheldon and his fight to create the Beaufort-Jasper Comprehensive Health Services Center in 1969.

My Great Uncle Lawrence Washington - President of the NAACP-Beaufort at the time, Reverend I.D. Newman of Orangeburg, Former Senator Fritz Hollings and Dr. Donald Gatch tour Beaufort and Jasper County visiting the poor in what would be dubbed by the NATIONAL PRESS, "The Hunger Tour."

Thirty years ago in Beaufort, people were dying of third world diseases like Pellagra. It was the Dr.'s efforts alongside others that changed all that.

 

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Taking African American Genealogy to Smaller Rural Communities...

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African American Genealogy in Rural Southern Areas

We have now started to book a series of workshops in rural southern areas in order to collect and then preserve the stories of African Americans living in these most remote regions of our country.  Our first workshop grant is with the Lobeco Branch Library in Beaufort County, SC. 

The Senior populations in many of these Southern Areas are very isolated and the seniors living there do not speak easily with outsiders and so getting their family stories for local district and state collections is darn near impossible.  We hope with our project to inspire other groups of professional genealogists to donate their time researching genealogies within populations that otherwise would not be able to afford.  Our 8 Workshop Series starting in August will educate and inform Library patrons on local, state and federal records research.  For more information on the Lobeco Library Branch Workshop contact Gina Molter at 843-255-6475 or send an email to gmolter@bcgov.net.
For additional info on African American Genealogy with Fallon Green visit our website at www.fallongreen.com.  

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Taking African American Genealogy to Smaller Rural Communities...

African American Genealogy in Rural Southern Areas

We have now started to book a series of workshops in rural southern areas in order to collect and then preserve the stories of African Americans living in these most remote regions of our country.  Our first workshop grant is with the Lobeco Branch Library in Beaufort County, SC. 

The Senior populations in many of these Southern Areas are very isolated and the seniors living there do not speak easily with outsiders and so getting their family stories for local district and state collections is darn near impossible.  We hope with our project to inspire other groups of professional genealogists to donate their time researching genealogies within populations that otherwise would not be able to afford.  Our 8 Workshop Series starting in August will educate and inform Library patrons on local, state and federal records research.  For more information on the Lobeco Library Branch Workshop contact Gina Molter at 843-255-6475 or send an email to gmolter@bcgov.net.

For additional info on African American Genealogy with Fallon Green speaking dates go to http://www.speakermix.com/fallongreen

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Friday, June 22, 2012

The Jazz in the Garden Genealogy Social Club will be meeting this week at The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden on the Constitution Avenue side.  This Friday our Special Guest is Chrissie Capron of the Office of Personnnel Management in Washington, DC.  

To register for this week's social...go to: http://www.eventbrite.com/org/2306931265
Or text to 843.597.3684...

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Friday, June 15, 2012

The Jazz in the Garden Genealogy Social Club will be meeting this week at The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden on the Constitution Avenue side.  This Friday Bring Your Research to Work!  Got a Brick Wall?  Stumped?  Get help from other others as we team-search federal records to find information on your family history.

To register for this week's social...go to: http://www.eventbrite.com/org/2306931265

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AFRICAN AMERICAN DOCTORS IN THE CIVIL WAR

June 19, 2012 - 12:00pm
http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/events/
National Archives
700 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC


Dr. Robert Slawson will share his fascinating stories of early African American men of medicine, the graduates of American medical schools and the African American men commissioned as Civil War officers based on the original research from his book, Prologue to Change: African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era.


CONTACT INFORMATION:
The National Archives
700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington , DC 20408 
Phone: 1-86-NARA-NARA

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