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Standard 8.5.CX

8.5.CX

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Penn Center Photo Gallery | Let's Go!

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Grades: 4 5 8 11

The Penn Center, founded officially as the Penn School in 1865, is a campus of buildings dedicated to African American education in St. Helena Island, South Carolina. The original school grew out of...

3D VR - Penn Center: Brick Church | Let's Go!

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Grades: 4 5 8 11

Penn Center is one of the most significant African American historical and cultural institutions in existence today. The historic campus is located on St. Helena Island, one of the most beautiful and...

3D VR - Penn Center: Frissell Community House | Let's Go

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Grades: 4 5 8 11

After becoming Penn Community Center in 1953, the institution began to focus on social issues affecting the well-being of the native islanders. This expanded to African Americans as a whole in the...

Historic Scott’s Branch High School | Let's Go!

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Grades: 5 8 11

The original Scott’s Branch High School was formed to serve African American students in Summerton, South Carolina. Originally known as the Taw Caw School, the school's name changed due to the...

Florence C. Benson Elementary School Photo Gallery | Let's Go! Photo

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Grades: 5 8 11

The Wheeler Hill Elementary school replaced the Celia Dial Saxon Negro Elementary School, which was overcrowded and needed rehabilitation. The neighborhood’s new elementary school was designed by...

Booker T. Washington High School Photo Gallery | Let's Go!

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Grades: 5 8 11

The Booker T. Washington Auditorium Building is the last extant building of Booker T. Washington High School in Columbia, South Carolina. The school opened in 1916 and became an important institution...

3D VR - Historic Scott’s Branch High School | Let's Go!

Episode 1

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Grades: 5 8 11

The original Scott’s Branch High School was formed to serve African American students in Summerton, South Carolina. Originally known as the Taw Caw School, the school's name changed due to the...

Historic Scott's Branch High School Photo Gallery | Let's Go!

Episode 4

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Grades: 5 8 11

Scott’s Branch High School (1951-1994) is a building with national significance due to its association with the United States Supreme Court case, Briggs v. Elliott , part of the Brown v. Board of...

3D VR - Florence C. Benson Elementary School | Let's Go!

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Grades: 5 8 11

"The Florence C. Benson Elementary School was built in 1953-55 as Wheeler Hill School to serve African American students of the community and as a replacement for the overcrowded Celia Dial Saxon...

3D VR - Booker T. Washington High School | Let's Go!

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Grades: 5 8 11

From 1915-1974, Booker T. Washington High School served as a separate educational system for young African-Americans in Columbia, South Carolina. The school began with elementary grades and became a...

Roots of Racism – Thinking Like a Historian about Racism | Asynchronous Studio Lessons

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Grades: 8 12

Teachers in this lesson have students evaluate current events surrounding racial discrimination. Teachers lead students through why and how historians use a historical lens to discuss racial issues in...

Before Brown: Organizing for Equal Opportunities | Modjeska Monteith Simkins House

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Grades: 5 8 11

Modjeska Simkins discusses the lack of basic amenities, and financial problems of the three room school house where her mother and sister worked.

James Otis Lecture 2020 (Full Program)

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Grades: 5 8 11 12

The 2020 James Otis Lecture will feature Richard Gergel, United States district judge, providing an informative presentation about his book “Unexampled Courage,” which details the impact of the...

Mann-Simons House Photo Gallery | Let's Go!

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Grades: 4 5 6 8 11

Mann-Simons Partial Family Tree Mann-Simons Family Portraits Case of Excavated Artifacts, Including A Rubber "Bouncy" Ball Photograph of John Lucius Simons, Sr.'s Sons: John Lucius Simons, Jr. (Left)...

Matthew Perry

Episode 102

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Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education

Upon returning home to Columbia, Matthew Perry established the Jenkins and Perry Law Firm, and became the chief legal counsel for the S.C. NAACP, where he began the battle toward the desegregation of...

Matthew Perry

Episode 103

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Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education

In 1975, after a nomination from Senator Strom Thurmond, then President Gerald Ford nominated Matthew Perry to a position on the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. Perry discusses what the Court of...

Matthew Perry

Episode 101

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Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education

Matthew Perry was born in Columbia, South Carolina, on August 3, 1921. Perry grew up in Columbia, and attended South Carolina State University, where he studied business administration. His education...

Briggs v. Elliott | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education

"B" is for Briggs v. Elliott (1954). Briggs v. Elliott was one of five cases, collectively entitled Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee, KS, et al., argued before the U.S. Supreme...

Road Trip - Teacher Resources

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Grades: 5 8 11

Road Trip includes video tours of historical places in South Carolina and videos about important events from the civil rights movement. The modern Civil Rights Movement began in the 1940s and many...

Education of Harvey Gantt: Early Life, And Brown V. Board Of Education | Carolina Stories

Episode 1

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Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education

In the 1950s and early 1960s, Southern states fought against desegregation, and the last state to comply was South Carolina. In 1963, Harvey Gantt was able to peacefully integrate Clemson College...

The Vietnam Experience 360 | Palmetto Scene

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Grades: 5 8 10

Patriots Point brings the history of the Vietnam War to life in this fully immersive 2 ½ acre exhibit. Walk through the exhibit to experience the sights and sounds of the Vietnam Experience with this...

A Hero's Welcome Home: The Vietnam Experience

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Grades: 5 8 10

Patriots Point brings the history of the Vietnam War to life in this fully immersive 2 ½ acre exhibit called the Vietnam Experience. From viewing dog tags at the beginning of the exhibit, 895 South...

SC Veteran Remembers the Vietnam War

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Grades: 5 8 10

From June 1969 through June 1970, Army Specialist 5th Class Karl Naugle served in the Vietnam War. As an artillery surveyor, his job was to drop into an area and mark the location for support cannons...

Sellers, Cleveland Louis, Jr. | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

“S” is for Sellers, Cleveland Louis, Jr. [b. 1944]. Civil rights activist. Educator. Sellers attended Howard University where he met several student activists, including Stokely Carmichael—later...