Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
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Host Beryl Dakers asks the panel to address the “Elephant in the Room”, which is the issue of race and voting.
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The panel discusses the issues women face when it comes to voter suppression.
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Host Beryl Dakers asks the panel why it took so long for women to gain equal rights in both the U.S., and in the state of South Carolina.
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The roles South Carolinians played in the Women’s Suffrage Movement have often gone unheralded. This program highlights the efforts of famous South Carolina suffragists, such as the Grimke sisters...
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Major James Calvin Hemphill, from Abbeville, succeeded Francis Dawson. At first, The News And Courier was impressed by Benjamin Ryan Tillman’s lambasting of “bourbon do-nothings” in power, but Tillman...
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The equal suffrage movement of women demanding the right to vote developed slowly in South Carolina. This parade in Aiken on January 26, 1917, claimed to be "The First Suffrage Parade in South...
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James S. White of Rock Hill kept a scrapbook of his activities as a Second Lieutenant in Company G of the first South Carolina Infantry during the Spanish-American War. Here he and his friend J.C...
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The Constitution of 1895. This is the present Constitution of the State of South Carolina, which defines state and local governmental power. However, over the last 94 years it has been so amended, or...
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The official Dispensary liquor label. One of the most controversial political issues in a period when political controversy dominated state politics, was the State Dispensary, a plan under which all...
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The South Carolina State Legislature in 1874 was known as the "Republican House," a majority of whom were African-American. Engraving from "Leslie's Illustrated Weekly," September 26, 1874. Courtesy...