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If you've never read Pat Conroy book, "The Water is Wide", I highly recommend it if you aren't familiar with the immense struggles of inequality that SC children endure.

We do the exact opposite of what we should be doing. The larger the poverty rate, the larger the classes and less qualified the teachers are.
So how do we work to attack this problem head on? Do you have a plan in mind?
SC District 5 Education Stats

Here's a few organizations you can begin with.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/GullahGeechee-Nation/66574769035
https://www.facebook.com/TheGullahSentinel.newspaper?fref=ts

You may also read Pat Conroy's, The Water is Wide.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553381571

As far as deep roots, you'll find the culture flourished in the islands of Georgia and South Carolina. It is traced back to the slaves born in the Caribbean and traded to the south. Post Civil War isolation kept it together.