Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
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Curtis J. Franks addresses the role the Avery Institute played in instilling leadership skills in African Americans and the transition from a private to public school. CREDIT: Project Discovery...
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In 1862, Robert Smalls, an enslaved crew-member of the CSS Planter, steals the boat, sails it past the heavily armed defenses of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina and delivers it into the hands of...
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Charleston, South Carolina, is a city rich in African American culture. Sullivan’s Island, once an entry port from Africa for the slave trade, was considered the gateway to the United States. The...
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Mary McLeod Bethune, Part 3 - Attending Seminary Mary receives a scholarship to attend seminary in Concord, North Carolina. She receives her own room at the top of the stairs. She struggles at first...
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Mary McLeod Bethune, Part 1 - Mary's Early Life The beginning of the Mary McLeod Bethune story. Mary was a sharecropper’s daughter, one of seventeen children, who from a young age had a desire and...
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Mary McLeod Bethune, Part 4 - Opens Her First School Unable to find a position as an African American, she returns to Maysville with her husband Albertus, a fellow teacher. They find a schoolhouse in...
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Mary McLeod Bethune, Part 2 - Mary's School Years At eleven years old Mary begins to learn from Miss Emma Wilson at a school for black children.