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Day 3: Histories in African American names It’s important to know that and think about how it impacted those ancestors and their descendants. This lesson centers on various African and African...
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Day 3: Histories in African American names It’s important to know that and think about how it impacted those ancestors and their descendants. This lesson centers on various African and African...
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Day 2: Analysis of “The English Language is my Enemy” by Ossie Davis Teacher It’s important to know that and think about how it impacted those ancestors and their descendants. This lesson centers on...
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Learn the history of Valentine's Day which is observed on February 14 each year.Photo
This photo gallery of the Modjeska Monteith Simkins House contains the following shots: Portraits of Modjeska Monteith Simkins. Inside the exhibit “An Advocate of the People” inside the home. A wall...Video
Mahkia Green, a Columbia based filmmaker shows parallels between the protesters of the past, with those fighting for social justice today in her film, "Rise Up."Video
Modjeska Simkins discusses the lack of basic amenities, and financial problems of the three room school house where her mother and sister worked.Video
Built between 1890 and 1895, this one-story cottage was home to Modjeska Monteith Simkins, considered "the Matriarch of Civil Rights activists of South Carolina," from 1932 until her death on April 5...Video
After the burning of Pennsylvania Hall, in Philadelphia, the Welds, along with Sarah Grimké, retreated to a farm in Belleville, New Jersey, where in 1839, the three produced a compendium on American...Video
The pastoral letters, meant to crack down on the Grimké sisters’ activities, had the opposite effect. The Grimkés continued to grow in popularity, and their letters on women’s rights were among the...Video
The Grimké sisters ran afoul of the Quakers as they embraced abolition and engaged in anti-slavery activities without permission. Angelina Grimké wrote a letter to abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison...