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Join us on Wednesday, February 11th from 6PM-7PM at the Carriage House for a compelling Magnolia Speaker Series event with historian Damon Lamar Fordham. During this event, Damon Lamar Fordham will be uncovering overlooked Black history and lived experiences. Damon Lamar Fordham was born in Spartanburg, SC and raised in Mt. Pleasant, SC. He received his master’s degree in history from the College of Charleston and The Citadel, and his undergraduate degrees at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He is currently an adjunct professor of history at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. He was a weekly columnist for the Charleston Coastal Times from 1994 to 1998, as well as the author of Black Folktales and Chronicles of South Carolina (Charleston: History Press, 2025), The 1895 Segregation Fight in South Carolina (Charleston: History Press, 2022), Voices of Black South Carolina (Charleston: History Press, 2009), and True Stories of Black South Carolina (Charleston: History Press, 2008).
He conducts a local Black History walking tour and received a citation from the South Carolina House of Representatives in 2022 for his work in education, and the Key to the City of Spartanburg in 2001. He was also on four educational visits to Egypt, Ghana, Senegal, Togo, and Gambia, West Africa, where he toured the Slave Port at Goree Island and lectured to a class of students at the University of The Gambia in Banjul.
This event is FREE with advance registration!
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3550 Ashley River Rd, Charleston, SC, United States, South Carolina 29414, 3550 Ashley River Rd, Charleston, SC 29414-7109, United States, Charleston Afb
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