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goodwill parochial school

Working to restore a Presbyterian school in South Carolina that helped shape Black leaders in the PC(USA)

Posted May 23rd, 2023

The school, founded in 1867 and constructed around 1890, was closed when combined with another school in the early 1960s and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. For decades, Goodwill Parochial School, with support from antecedents of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., a predecessor of the PC(USA), educated thousands of African American children whose parents and grandparents had not long before been freed from enslavement.

Working to restore a Presbyterian school in South Carolina that helped shape Black leaders in the PC(USA)

Posted April 6th, 2023

A dedicated board of directors is redoubling efforts to draw attention to and restore the Goodwill Parochial School building, now known as the Goodwill Cultural Center, in east Sumter County, South Carolina.