Question: What is special about the African-American cultural and educational center the descendants of enslaved Africans from South Carolina attended?

Context articles: African Americans
W. Brantley Harvey Jr.
Landship (Barbados)
Stewart Cleveland Cureton
Black Carib
Fried chicken
Penn Center (Saint Helena Island, South Carolina)
Favela
Gullah
Afro-Ecuadorian

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
 The term may also be used to include only those individuals who are descended from enslaved Africans.
 As a compound adjective the term is usually hyphenated as African-American.
William Brantley Harvey Jr. (born August 14, 1930) is an American lawyer and politician in the state of South Carolina.
 He was the son of W. Brantley Harvey Sr. (1893–1981), a lawyer in Beaufort, South Carolina and former member of the South Carolina State Senate.
 Harvey attended The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and afterward served in the United States Army.
 He received a law degree from the University of South Carolina, and was admitted to the bar in 1955.
 He then joined his father's law firm, Harvey & Battey.
 He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1958, and served until 1975, when he was installed as Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina.
 He served in that position until 1983.
 Harvey later served on the South Carolina Commission of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, as well as the South Carolina Department of Transportation.
 He was married to Helen and has two sons and three daughters.
The Barbados Landship is a cultural movement and organisation, known for its entertaining parades, performances and dances.
 Members are said to mimic the British Navy, dressed in naval uniforms and marching and performing to the music of the Tuk Band.
 However, it is a lot more than entertainment.
 The organisation was started in the island of Barbados after Emancipation, by the earliest plantation workers of African Descent to help them develop socially and economically.
 The Barbados Landship Association is the umbrella body and is essentially a Friendly Society.
 Each community had a Landship.
 It is based on a cooperative system, operating within communities and providing common services to them.
 The Landship, as it is locally known, has been an oral tradition handed down from members to members from the time of its establishment in 1863.
 It is held among the ranks of Barbados' cultural symbols such as the "Mudda Sally" and the "Shaggy Bear", but in much more esteem as a "cultural icon unique to Barbados".
 It is thought that the Landship existed long before it became officially established and that the ways of the Landship were practised within the plantation communities of African slaves long before emancipation.
 This would account for the interpretation of Landship manoeuvres as re-enactments of the Middle Passage, an experience that would have been embedded into the minds of the first shipments of enslaved Africans to Barbados.
 During the latter part of slavery, slaves were bred and the plantations had very little need for imported slaves.
Stewart Cleveland Cureton Born March 24, 1930,To Santee Argo Cureton and Martha Arrye Henderson Cureton.
 He is the sixth child of seven.
 He was educated in the Greenville County school system, graduating from Sterling High School in 1949.
 Having already accepted God's call to preach at the age of seventeen, he continued his education at Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1953.
 On December 27, 1954, Dr. Cureton married the love of his life, Claudette Hazel Chapman Cureton.
 From their union four children were born, Ruthye, Stewart Jr., Santee Charles, and Samuel.
 Samuel followed his father into the ministry.
 Dr. Cureton modeled his belief that an effective leader needs both a "baptized heart and a baptized brain", and through the years continued his education by studying at numerous other colleges and universities throughout North Carolina and South Carolina.
 He was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree from Morris College, Sumter, South Carolina and Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina.
 He began his pastorate in 1953 as pastor of Old Pilgrim Baptist Church, Greenville, South Carolina: New Galilee Baptist Church, Walhala, South CArolina; Rock Hill Baptist Church #2, Greenville, South Carolina; Griffin Ebenezer Baptist Church, Pickens, South Carolina and Gethsemane Baptist Church, Chester, South Carolina.
 In 1965 he was called to pastor Reedy Fork Baptist Church and Reedy River Baptist Church which was his home church.
 In 1978 he became the full-time pastor of Reedy River Baptist Church.
 Under his leadership the membership and influence of Reedy River BAptist Church grew exponentially.
 He led the membership to build two new sanctuaries and a Family Life Center that became the model for many other churches in the Greenville area.
 Dr. Cureton was committed to education, understanding that it is only through education that people can reach their full potential.
 Dr. Cureton rose from humble beginnings to become a local, state and national leader.
 Among his many accomplishments: served as Moderator of the Reedy River Baptist Association; served as President of the Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South CArolina (1986-1991); served as Second Vice President, Vice President-at-Large and President of the NAtional Baptist Convention,USA,Inc; appointed as a Commission Member of the United States Presidential Scholars Program by President Bill Clinton (1991-2000); awarded the Order of the Palmetto Award; served as member of the Benedict College Board of Trustees; served as member of the Morris College Board of Trustees.
 – Steward Cleveland Cureton departed this earthly life and went to his heavenly home on December 30, 2008), also known as S.C. Cureton, was President of the National Baptist Convention from March 1999 to September 1999.
 Cureton, then Vice President-At-Large, took over the leadership of the Convention when his predecessor Henry Lyons was forced to resign.
 He served the remainder of the Lyons' tenure.
 Cureton, a former math teacher at Sterling High School and Beck High School, was pastor of Reedy River Missionary Baptist Church in South Carolina at the time of his death.
 He was an advocate on state issues such as the establishment of a holiday honoring Martin Luther King in Greenville County.
 Cureton was instrumental in bringing King to Greenville for a speech in April 1967.
 Dr. Cureton was out front in integrating the Public Libraries in Greenville County, South Carolina.
 He died on December 30, 2008 aged 78.
Black Caribs are indigenous people from the island of St. Vincent, formed by the mixture between Island Caribs and enslaved Africans produced in the 18th century.
 This population retains Caribbean culture and makes up a very small population in the archipelago, representing the 2.0% of the current population of St. Vincent and Grenadines.
 There are also black Caribs in Dominica and Trinidad.
 The history of the Black Caribs is known thanks to reports that the British governor William Young sent to the British crown, in which he explained that the Black Caribs were a mix of Caribs and enslaved Africans from Spanish ships wrecked near its shores.
 These reports were read and taken as reference by many chroniclers and later historians.
 However, researchers of history and Garifuna language (the Garifunas are descendants of Black Caribs in the mainland of Central America) of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as Itarala, have their own conception of the origin of the Black Caribs.
 According to them, the African ancestors of the Black Caribs come from other Caribbean islands and migrated to Saint Vincent as refugees to escape slavery and as slaves bought by the Carib Amerindians.
 The Black Caribs are the people who originated the Garifuna people, when part of their community was expelled from St. Vincent in 1797 and exported to the island of Roatán, Honduras, from where they migrated to the coast of the mainland of Central America, spread as far as Belize and Nicaragua.
The first dish known to have been deep fried was fritters, which were popular in the Middle Ages.
 However, it was the Scottish who were the first Europeans to deep fry their chicken in fat (though without seasoning).
 Meanwhile, a number of West African peoples had traditions of seasoned fried chicken (though battering and cooking the chicken in palm oil).
 Scottish frying techniques and West African seasoning techniques were combined by enslaved Africans and African-Americans in the American South.
 Prior to the Second World War, fried chicken was often very expensive and was only enjoyed on special occasions.
 In the late 1900s and early 2000s, however, fried chicken has been mass-produced and the price of the dish has gone down significantly.
The Penn Center, formerly the Penn School, is an African-American cultural and educational center near Frogmore, South Carolina, on Saint Helena Island.
 Founded in 1862 by missionaries from Pennsylvania, it was the first school founded in the Southern United States specifically for the education of African-Americans.
 It provided critical educational facilities to Gullah slaves freed after plantation owners fled the island, and continues to fulfill an educational mission.
 The campus was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1974.
 Darrah Hall and Brick Baptist Church on the campus were declared part of Reconstruction Era National Monument in January 2017.
A favela (] ), Portuguese for slum, is a low-income historically informal urban area in Brazil.
 The first favela, now known as Providência in the center of Rio de Janeiro, appeared in the late 19th century, built by soldiers who had nowhere to live following the Canudos War.
 Some of the first settlements were called "bairros africanos" (African neighborhoods).
 Over the years, many former enslaved Africans moved in.
The Gullah are the descendants of enslaved Africans from various people who lived in the Lowcountry regions of the U.S. states of Georgia and South Carolina, in the area of both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands.
 They developed a creole ethnicity and language that is distinctive among African Americans.
Afro-Ecuadorians are an ethnic group in Ecuador who are descendants of formerly enslaved Africans brought by the Spanish during their conquest of Ecuador from the Incas.
 They make up from 4% to 6% of Ecuador's population.