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

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. <SEP> 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. <SEP>  They developed a creole ethnicity and language that is distinctive among African Americans. 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. <SEP>  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 Penn Center, formerly the Penn School, is an African-American cultural and educational center near Frogmore, South Carolina, on Saint Helena Island.  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.