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Standard 8.5.CX

8.5.CX

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Florence: A Renaissance Spirit: Civil Rights Movement | Carolina Stories

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education

Many returning to Florence after World War II saw clearly, possibly for the first time, a great injustice in their own community...segregation. Brown versus Board of Education" changed race relations...

Desegration in SC | Conversations on SC History

Episode 20

Video

Grades: 5 8 11

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History. Desegregation and other social change in South Carolina is discussed: World War II – Catalyst for Change...

An Overview: The Civil Rights Movement | Road Trip

Document

Grades: 5 8 11

The Civil Rights Movement has been part of an ongoing struggle since enslaved Africans were first brought to America. The modern Civil Rights Movement began in the 1940s and many changes had taken...

Minnie Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement

Lesson

Grades: 4, 8, 9

This lesson can be a component of a year-long project based lesson on civil rights or one part of a single, shorter PBL focusing only the civil rights era after World War II. This particular extension...

Modjeska Simkins | Idella Bodie's SC Women (FULL VERSION)

Video

Grades: 5 8

This is the story of an African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason who came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but she dedicated her life to helping the...

Native American Civil Rights Timeline (1896-1978) | Road Trip

Interactive

Grades: 5 8 11

View Native American-related events from South Carolina, and in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s on the interactive civil rights timeline.

Judge J. Waties Waring (1880-1968) | Road Trip

Photo

Grades: 5 8

In 1947 Judge J. Waties Waring's monumental ruling in the George Elmore suit (Elmore v. Rice) eliminated the all-white Democratic primary system in South Carolina. For the first time since 1876, the...

Levi Pearson (1892 - 1970) | Road Trip

Photo

Grades: 5 8

Levi Pearson, and other parents whose children attended Scotts Branch High School, wanted the county to provide buses for their children. Mr. Pearson was encouraged by Rev. Joseph Armstrong DeLaine...

Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) | Road Trip

Photo

Grades: 5 8 11

Thurgood Marshall's entire legal career was devoted to pursuing equal justice for all. He argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court and won 29 of those cases, including his most significant, Brown v...

Lee County - Dennis High School

Photo

Grades: 5 8 11

Constructed in 1936, Dennis was the first high school for African Americans in Lee County, including Bishopville and nearby rural areas. In contrast with the much larger Bishopville High School, which...

Clarendon County - Summerton High School

Photo

Grades: 5 8 11

The building that housed Summerton High School from circa 1936 to the mid-1960s is located at 12 South Church Street in Summerton. In the middle of the twentieth century, the all-white high school was...

Native Americans | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 5 8 11

John Trudell, a Native American activist, talks about an often overlooked group of people. Trudell shares how Native Americans fit into the fight for civil rights. Connections, P.A. Bennett, ETV, 2002

Brown v. Board of Education | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 5 8 10 11

The Plessy v. Ferguson decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case...

Road Trip Mid-State, Stop 1: Modjeska Simkins House

Video

Grades: 5 8

The Road Trip Mid-State crew visits the Modjeska Simkins house to understand more about South Carolina's struggle for Civil Rights.

Road Trip Mid-State, Stop 5: Cecil Williams

Video

Grades: 5 7 8

The Road Trip team speaks with Cecil Williams about his time in the Civil Rights movement and as a photographer.

Road Trip Mid-State, Stop 2: James E. Clyburn

Video

Grades: 5 8

The Road Trip Mid-State crew speaks with Congressman James E. Clyburn.

Road Trip Mid-State, Stop 4: Liberty Hill

Video

Grades: 5 8

The Road Trip Mid-State team visits Liberty Hill and learns about its significance during the Civil Rights movement.

Road Trip Mid-State, Stop 3: Ernest A. Finney, Jr. and Will Moreau Goins

Video

Grades: 5 8

A member of the Road Trip Mid-State crew speaks with her uncle and grandfather to learn about the unique struggles during the Civil Rights movement in South Carolina, including the experiences of...

Those Who Remain: Native Population

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

In this segment, Herb McAmis, an adopted member of the Edisto-Kusso-Natchez people of Dorchester and Colleton Counties, explains that some are genetic Indians and some are Indians in their hearts. He...

Eliza Briggs | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 5 8

Eliza and Harry Briggs, Sr. are listed as the first petitioners on the lawsuits from the 1940s and 1950s. Harry, a gas station attendant in Summerton, and his wife, Eliza, lost their jobs and were...

Alice Faye Broad Hincka | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

Alice Faye Broad Hincka attended the Varner Indian School and Moncks Corner Junior High School. Alice shares her memories of growing up in the Varner community.

Avery Institute | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 4 5 8

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...

Martha Varner | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 5 8 11

Martha Varner attended the Pineview School and the Varner Indian School during the 1930s and early 1940s. She recalls as a child being called "Brass Ankle" by other children passing by on school buses...

Missing History | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 4 8 11

Molly Scott talks about not seeing more local Native American history in her school textbooks.