S.C. History

South Carolina's historical events, people and places. Content has been curated to meet South Carolina Social Studies Standards.
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Beaufort Organizations | Road Trip
Beaufort Organizations | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Joseph McDomick, Jr., civil rights activist in Beaufort county, talks about the influence of civil rights organizations like SNCC, CORE, the NAACP, the Freedom Riders and the Black Panther Party.
Integration Generation | Road Trip
Integration Generation | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

CONNECTIONS, South Carolina ETV's minority affairs show, investigates the effects of the civil rights movement on the children of the integration generation, who are now in their 40's and 50's, and...
Judge Matthew Perry, Jr. | Road Trip
Judge Matthew Perry, Jr. | Road Trip

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Beginning in the 1950s, Judge Matthew Perry, Jr became the leading civil rights lawyer in South Carolina. Judge Perry was the first African American federal judge in South Carolina. The Matthew J...
Picket Department Stores | Road Trip
Picket Department Stores | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Joseph McDomick, Jr., civil rights activist in Beaufort county, talks about picketing department stores like Edwards, Roses and Piggly Wiggly to protest the stores' refusal to hire black clerks.
Briggs v. Elliott | Road Trip
Briggs v. Elliott | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

The Briggs v. Elliott case began as a simple request to provide bus transportation. In addition to having separate and very inferior facilities, black children had to walk to school, sometimes many...
Modjeska Monteith Simkins House | Road Trip
Modjeska Monteith Simkins House | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Catherine Fleming Bruce, the Curator for the Modjeska Simkins House, gives a brief history of the Visanska-Starks Carriage House in the Waverly Community. The home is connected to Historically Black...
Clarendon County | Road Trip
Clarendon County | Road Trip

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Grades: 5 8

Rev. J. A. DeLaine and several others helped build the national case Brown v. Board of Education. DeLaine's family and other Clarendon county residents recall the bravery shown by signers of the...
Jim Crow & KKK | Road Trip
Jim Crow & KKK | Road Trip

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Many of the Briggs v. Elliott plaintiffs and those associated with them experienced intimidation and violence at the hands of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacy group. Living in the area...
Rev. James Hinton | Road Trip
Rev. James Hinton | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

University of South Carolina student, Eli Peterson, gives a brief history of the life of Rev. James Hinton and his contributions to the Waverly Community which is adjacent to historic Benedict College...