Issue Position: Gullah Geechee

Issue Position

Jim Clyburn's bill creating the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor became law in 1996. Four years later, he proposed the Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor and was told that South Carolina was too small to have two Heritage Corridors, but he did not let that attitude deter him.

It took six years, but his Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor bill became law in 2006. In 2016, the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Commission, which manages the Corridor in partnership with the National Park Service, was reauthorized for five more years.

Jim is developing a third Heritage Corridor in South Carolina to highlight Revolutionary and Civil War sites. Tourism is South Carolina's number one industry and heritage tourism is the tourism industry's leading economic engine.

Congressman Clyburn is working to make sure South Carolina gets its fair share of the tourism economy.

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