Ain't you got a right to the tree of life

The Promiseland Church on Bohicket Road, organized c.1865, was founded with the help of Elipha White Qualls, a white man and member of the Johns's Island Presbyterian Church

The Promise Land School was a two-room schoolhouse built in 1882 on Bohicket Road. One of the

teachers, Septima Clark, became a civil rights leader and helped start citizenship schools.

Blacks were not allowed to teach in Charleston until the 1920s,

This cinder-block classroom was added behind Promise land School at a later date.

" We need to be taught to study rather than to belive,

to inquire rather than to affirm,"

Septima Poinstte Clark

Esau Jenkins, His famous Volkswagen, Arthur Brown, Dr. Millicent Q Brown and Rev.Mckinley Washington Jr.

Echo in my Soul

Septima Poinsette Clark

Historical Marker

Septima Poinsette Clark

Birthplace.

Historical Marker

Sepitma Poinsette Clark

Former Students of the Promise Land School

Ms. Elizabeth Coaxum, Rev. Charles C. Haywood, Sr, Mr. Alfred Haywood and Ms. Christian Haywood Lyles

Untitled Slide, by Ms. April Fitzpatrick

C. 2024

Ain't you got a right to the tree of life.

Promise Land School today 2024

It is presently part of a Mexican Restaurant.

The first wooden building burned down.

All That She Carried,

A Black Family Keepsake,

The Journey of Ashley's Sack

My great grandmother Rose. Mother of Ashley

gave her this sack when she was sold at age 9 in South Carolina it held a tattered dress 3 handfuls of pecans a braid of Roses hair

Told her to be filled with my love always

she never saw her again.

Ashely is my grandmother

Ruth Middleton

1920

THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS