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Henry E. Darby

Henry Darby

Henry E. Darby
4743 Ezekiel Avenue
North Charleston, SC 29405
(843)901-6793 (C)
henrydarby@msn.com

District 4

Date Elected: November, 2004

Term: Expires December, 2024

Place of birth: Charleston, SC

Goals & key issues as a council member:

  • Diversity within the workforce and procurement of the County
  • Fair and equitable pay for all employees
  • Employment for the underprivileged

Council committees:

  • Finance
  • Planning/Public Works
  • Audit Committee
  • Charleston Museum Board
  • Human Services Commission
  • Charleston Animal Society
  • Charleston Promise Neighborhood
  • International African American Museum
  • Housing

Education:

  • Liberty Hill Elementary - North Charleston, SC
  • Whitesville Elementary - Oakley, SC
  • Bonds-Wilson High School - North Charleston, SC - 1969
  • Berkeley Training High School - Moncks Corner, SC - 1970
  • Berkeley High School - Moncks Corner, SC - 1971
  • B.A. Morris College - Sumter, SC - 1975
  • M.A. Atlanta University - Atlanta, GA - 1985
  • M. Ed. The Citadel - Charleston, SC - 2007
  • Studied at Emory University - Atlanta, GA - 1985
  • Ed. S. The Citadel, Charleston, SC - 2011

Employment history:

  • 1978-1980: Production Assistant, DuPont, Goose Creek, SC
  • 1980-1982: Instructor, Burke High School, Charleston, SC
  • 1982-1996: Instructor, Morningside Middle School, North Charleston, SC
  • 1990-2000: Adjunct Professor, Charleston Southern University, Charleston, SC
  • 1996-2005: Instructor, Burke High School, Charleston, SC
  • 1999-2000: Administrative Assistant, Burke High School, Charleston, SC
  • 2001-2003: Coordinator, Burke High School Adult Education Program, Charleston, SC
  • 2005-2017: Assistant Principal, Fort Dorchester High School, North Charleston, SC
  • 2017-present: Principal, North Charleston High School, North Charleston, SC
  • 2020-present: Walmart Associate, North Charleston, SC

Civic involvement:

  • Founder Citizens Patrol Against Drugs (CPAD) - an organization that patrolled the Liberty Hill community unarmed from 6:00 PM to 2:00 AM to prevent the selling of illegal drugs.  CPAD was studied by the police departments of Columbia, Florence, and Greenville, SC. Received national award for its innovation and success. There were no drug-related deaths within Liberty Hill for 11 years after CPAD ended its patrol. The organization went into five other drug-infested communities to have drugs eradicated.
  • Co-founder Citizens Patrol Against Drugs II with Councilman Teddie Pryor on the East Side of Charleston where shootings and killings took place every 12 days. Thereafter, it was several years before a drug-related death occurred. The organization also went into the Chicora-Cherokee and Union Heights communities.
  • Co-founder of the Denmark Vesey & the Spirit of Freedom Monument Committee whose mission was to erect a monument in honor of Denmark Vesey.

Accomplishments/Awards:

  • Certificate of Completion - Dorchester School District Two Leadership Academy
  • Certificate of Training- Law Enforcement & Schools: A partnership of Safe Schools
  • Community Leadership - United to Save America
  • Community Leadership - The Omega Newman Award
  • Friendship AME Men's Day Award
  • Life-Subscribing Membership Award - SC Coalition for Voter Participation
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Award
  • Morris Brown AME Church African-American Achievement Award
  • Omega Psi Phi Scroll of Honor Award
  • Outstanding Contribution & Services Award
  • Outstanding Musician - Oak Grove Baptist Church
  • Outstanding Musician - North Charleston Recreation Department
  • Political Awareness/Economics Award - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
  • South Carolina State University Solid Leadership Award
  • Teacher of the Year - Burke High School
  • The Honorable David Walker Award
  • Union Baptist Church African-American Achievement Award
  • Taught the first course exclusively on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. within the nation according to the Atlanta University History Department
  • Author of King on Vietnam - Phylon: A Review of Race and Culture (1986), The Execution of Two Liberty Hill Negroes (1993), A Short History of Liberty Hill (1993), Denmark Vesey & His Early Quest for Freedom - Vet Center Voice (1999), Liberty Hill - Vietnam Fighting Men (2014)
  • Traveled to China (Schijiazhuang and Handan) to instruct Chinese teachers how to incorporate various instructional methodologies and teaching styles to enhance Chinese student learning.

Contributor of College Awards - Morris College:

  • The Florence Darby Award - for the student who exhibits the most religious emphasis
  • The Reverend Dr. Thomas Dawkins Award (pending) [ for the minister who evinces the most sincere and altruistic concern for students who have major personal and/or family problems]

Memberships:

  • Liberty Hill Improvement Council
  • National Association of Secondary School Principals
  • South Carolina Association of Secondary Administration

Family:

  • Daughters: Florrie, Jacinta, and Nailah Carrie-Inez

Hobbies:

  • Collecting rare books (African-American - United States History)
  • Musician - Oak Grove, Pilgrim, Union, and Victory Baptist Churches
  • Raising domestic goats
  • Researching and the writing of history
  • Restoration of 1964 Pontiac GTO
  • Restoration of 1966 Volkswagen Beetle

Council Member Bios

Herbert Ravenel Sass, III

Larry Kobrovsky

Robert L. Wehrman

Henry Darby

Teddie E. Pryor, Sr.

Kylon Jerome Middleton

C. Brantley Moody

Joe Boykin

Jenny Costa Honeycutt


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