Foreword
Foreword
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With the 1971 signing by President Richard Nixon of Executive Order 11593, Protection and Enhancement of the Cultural Environment, federal agencies were required to take the lead in establishing programs for the protection of significant historic resources "for the inspiration and benefit of the people...". This landmark directive has been a central force in the development and ultimate success of cultural resource management programs that have required close cooperation between federal agencies. With the Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake Cultural Resource Investigations Program, the National Park Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers combined forces to produce an outstanding result. This multi-million dollar, twenty-year program has yielded a vast array of invaluable information on the cultural history of the upper Savannah River in the central Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia. This book is an embodiment and tribute to the mostly unrecorded panorama of events and circumstances surrounding the lives and invaluable contributions to history of African Americans in the four county project area. The Park Service and the Corps, in consultation with our state governments, have collaborated in producing a volume that is both informative and entertaining. We applaud these efforts to inform the public of the rich cultural heritage shared by our states.
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