Grade(s): 5
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2011
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Eddie Norton, a sweeper in the Saxon Mill, Spartanburg, was photographed by the child labor reformer Lewis Hine on May 17, 1912, for the U.S. Child Labor Commission. Courtesy of the National Archives...
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Employers need employees or workers. During the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States, many new jobs were created. Many of the workers who filled these new jobs were children. The problem...
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The purpose of this lesson is to teach students about African-American education during the early and mid-twentieth century as reflected in the Strawberry School on Hobcaw Barony. Students will also...
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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...
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This program in the series focuses on Mary McLeod Bethune, a young African American woman who risks her life to educate African Americans. Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, Mary McLeod had a strong...
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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
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Civil Rights leaders try to desegregate the most racist capital in the nation, Birmingham, Alabama. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S...
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) was the major civil rights organization in South Carolina. Several other organizations such as Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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There were several key leaders during the Civil Rights Movement. Despite visible leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and John F. Kennedy, young people played a major role in...
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In 1974, Henry J. Clark received his Residential Building and Remodeling State License for South Carolina, one of the first for Native Americans in this state. He built and sold many houses and...