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Standard 3-5.5

3-5.5 Summarize the development of economic, political, and social opportunities of African Americans in South Carolina, including the end of Jim Crow laws; the desegregation of schools (Briggs v. Elliott) and other public facilities; and efforts of Af...

Grade(s): 3

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Ferdinand Pearson | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Ferdinand Pearson the son of South Carolina civil rights pioneer, Levi Pearson, talks about the court case that his father brought against the Clarendon County School Board. The court case asked for...

Clarendon Today | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Leola Parks, the executive assistant to the Superintendent for Clarendon County, and others talk about what should be done to improve the school system for everyone. I'm Building A Bridge, L. A...

Walter Key Jr | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Walter Key, Jr. talks about the contributions of principals and teachers to the civil rights movement.

Ferdinand Pearson on School Conditions | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Ferdinand Pearson talks about the school conditions for black children in Clarendon County. Starting at the age of six, he had to walk to a school which was located over four miles away from his home.

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...

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...

Billie Fleming on Farming | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Mr. Billie Fleming explains the hardship that farmers, teachers and anyone associated with the NAACP during the civil rights movement encountered in their communities from white citizens.

Black Social Workers | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Joseph McDomick, Jr., civil rights activist in Beaufort county, shares his story of helping to organize the Welfare Rights Organization (WRO) in Beaufort. McDomick relates how he and other community...

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...

Flight Instructor

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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...

Modjeska Simkins, Part 1 | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women

Episode 1

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Part 1 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...

Modjeska Simkins, Part 6 | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women

Episode 6

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Part 6 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...

Modjeska Simkins, Part 5 | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women

Episode 5

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Part 5 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...

Modjeska Simkins, Part 7 | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women

Episode 7

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Part 7 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...

Modjeska Simkins, Part 2 | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women

Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Part 2 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...

Modjeska Simkins, Part 3 | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women

Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Part 3 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...

Modjeska Simkins, Part 4 | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women

Episode 4

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Part 4 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...