Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
Lesson
Using 21 st century skills of critical thinking and analyzing the students will use technology to examine primary and secondary sources, provide relevant feedback to peers in blog/social media setting...
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The second generation of suffragists came to prominence alongside the "New Woman" movement in the early 1900's. The American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association...
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Camp Croft, a WWII Army Infantry Replacement Center located near Spartanburg, SC. Since 2001, this site has served to honor those who worked and trained at Croft from 1940 to 1946 and to memorialize...
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USS Yorktown (CV-10) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served with the US Navy in World War II and the Vietnam War. World War II’s famous “Fighting Lady” would participate significantly in the...
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William Watts Ball, who had previously worked at The Evening Post and The State, became the new editor. He was an outspoken critic of “The New Deal”, along with too much government, and these views...
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Marion Gressett (1902-1984, see Marion Gressett And Hyman Rubin) was first elected to the South Carolina state Senate from Calhoun County in 1937. A powerful political figure during the 1950s and...
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The growing pressures brought to bear against legal segregation by the federal court system, that culminated in the 1954 Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. The Board of Education" of Topeka, Kansas...
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Postwar politics in South Carolina were affected by the many changes that the war had brought. Many new citizens flocked to the state, partly because of the many military bases there, and partly...
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In 1946, George Elmore attempted to vote in the all-White Democratic primary but was denied the right to vote. In February 1947, the NAACP filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court against John I...