Road Trip Mid-State, Stop 2: James E. Clyburn
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The Road Trip Mid-State crew speaks with Congressman James E. Clyburn.Visit the South Carolina Department of Education for Social Studies standards.
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The Road Trip Mid-State crew speaks with Congressman James E. Clyburn.Video
The Road Trip Mid-State team visits Liberty Hill and learns about its significance during the Civil Rights movement.Video
The Road Trip team speaks with Cecil Williams about his time in the Civil Rights movement and as a photographer.Video
A look at the pageantry of the tobacco industry in its heyday.Video
Understanding how to keep youth in the city of Mullins.Video
A look at the struggle to find crops to replace tobacco. Some farmers have substituted cattle, corn, beans and other vegetables for tobacco, but the profits are not what they were with tobacco.Video
Rebuilding the town of Mullins as tobacco makes an exit as a cash crop.Video
A look at the economy during tobacco's heyday and how that often translated into segregation in Mullins and other agricultural towns.Video
The sad reality of unemployment in Mullins.Video
The history of sharecropping and its after-effects in the tobacco industry. After the Civil War, former enslaved Africans had a great desire to own their own farms. Most freedmen were very poor...