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Nutcracker | Project Discovery Revisited
Nutcracker | Project Discovery Revisited

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Every December, the Columbia City Ballet performs The Nutcracker ballet. The story was written by E. T. A. Hoffman, with music composed by Tschaikovsky. This ballet masterpiece has become one of the...
Marian Wright Edelman | S.C. Hall of Fame
Marian Wright Edelman | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Marian Wright Edelman is founder and President of the Children's Defense Fund, the nation’s strongest advocacy group for children and families. Born in 1939 in Bennettsville, South Carolina, she...
March on Washington | Road Trip
March on Washington | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Joseph McDomick, Jr., former Penn Center project supervisor for over thirty years, tells how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his inner circle worked at Penn to plan events like the March on Washington...
H.L. Hunley Discovered | Project Discovery Revisited
H.L. Hunley Discovered | Project Discovery Revisited

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Grades: 4 8

The H. L. Hunley was a product of the pre-Civil War Industrial Revolution. Submersibles, torpedoes, and shells were also innovations of the 1860s. James McClintock and Baxter Watson built the Hunley...
King at Penn Center | Road Trip
King at Penn Center | Road Trip

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Joseph McDomick, Jr., former Penn Center project supervisor for over thirty years, talks about Dr. King's many visits to Penn Center and how the visits had to be kept quiet because of the threats on...
Why the Penn Center? | Road Trip
Why the Penn Center? | Road Trip

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Joseph McDomick, Jr, civil rights activist and former Penn Center employee, talks about why Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. chose to visit the Penn Center on many occasions during the civil rights...
General Jacob Edward Smart | S.C. Hall of Fame
General Jacob Edward Smart | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Jacob E. Smart served with the legendary General "Hap" Arnold in World War II, planning the daring bombing raid "Operation Tidal Wave". During the Cold War General Smart became an important leader in...
Benjamin Mays | S.C. Hall of Fame
Benjamin Mays | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 6 7 8

Benjamin Mays (1894-1984) was a minister, educator, scholar and social activist. He was known as the "Father of the Civil Rights Movement."
Flight Instructor 2
Flight Instructor
Episode 2

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

Celebrate Freedom -Tuskegee Airmen 60th Anniversary was an event that took place in 2004 in Camden, South Carolina. In 1941, the 99th Pursuit Squadron, the first African-American air fighting unit...
Tuskegee Airmen Forum 9
Tuskegee Airmen Forum
Episode 9

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

About the Panel Hosted by ETV, Connections host P.A. Bennett moderates a forum during the 60th Anniversary for the Tuskegee Airmen. The members of the panel included: Lt. Colonel Spann Watson (1916...
Land 12
Land
Episode 12

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Several generations of the St. Helena community attended the historic Penn School, established as one of the first schools for freed slaves. In the 1950s and 1960s, the site served as a safe retreat...
The Tuskegee Airmen Phenomenon 1
The Tuskegee Airmen Phenomenon
Episode 1

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

The story of the Tuskegee Airman is even more a story about America than about a group of determined young African American men and women in the late 30’s and early 40’s. On this edition of...
Submarine | Eye Wonder
Submarine | Eye Wonder

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Eye Wonder team explores a submarine. D.V. meets a submarine captain who tells him all about the science and technology of submarines and how they can be used to collect samples and data for other...
Flag | Eye Wonder
Flag | Eye Wonder

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Eye Wonder team explores how flags are made. D.V. visits a flag factory and learns about the sublimation printing process and sees flags being printed and sewn.