Donald Sweeper

Donald Sweeper has been doing reenactments of famous African Americans for nearly 10 years. He also does lectures and storytelling about the Gullah Culture for large and small groups of all age levels. He has taught in both public and private education at the elementary and middle school grade levels. During the summer of 2014 he was selected by the Greenville Chautauqua organization to portray African American Congressman and Civil War Hero, Robert Smalls. He did eight performances during the 10-day festival at different sites, which included Greenville Technical College, Hughes Main Library at Spartanburg, and Warren Wilson College near Asheville, North Carolina.

Donald Sweeper requests an additional honorarium to the $250 contributed by SC Humanities.

Speakers Bureau Topics by Donald Sweeper

Richard T. Greener

African-American History and Culture Chautauqua and Reenactments Education and Pedagogy Nineteenth-Century History and Culture Reconstruction Era South Carolina History and Culture

Growing up Gullah

African-American History and Culture Gullah Geechee History and Culture Lowcountry History and Culture Religion South Carolina History and Culture Storytelling

Scrooge, “According to Gullah”

Chautauqua and Reenactments Gullah Geechee History and Culture Literature and Writing The Arts

A visit from Dr. Ernest Everett Just, Research Scientist

African-American History and Culture Chautauqua and Reenactments Education and Pedagogy Twentieth-Century History and Culture

Robert Smalls “Rising to the Occasion”

African-American History and Culture Chautauqua and Reenactments Civil War Lowcountry History and Culture Nineteenth-Century History and Culture South Carolina History and Culture

Donald Sweeper

Speakers Bureau Topics by Donald Sweeper

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