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5.4.CO EXTENDER

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Modjeska Monteith Simkins House - Tour

Document

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

Students will use a video and virtual tour to understand how they are encouraged to organize, resist, and rise up against social injustice.

Modjeska Monteith Simkins House - Video Guide

Document

Grades: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Students will use the first 7 questions to help follow the content discussed in the video. The last 2 questions are open-ended questions. Use questions 9 and 10 to start an open discussion on the...

"Rise Up" by M. Greene | Modjeska Monteith Simkins House

Video

Grades: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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."

Modjeska Monteith Simkins House

Video

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

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...

Benjamin Mays Historical Preservation Site | Let's Go!

Video

Grades: 5 8

Dr. Benjamin E. Mays' childhood home is the focal point of the Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Historical Preservation Site, a destination for individuals and groups interested in learning about the life of one...

Rear Admiral Reubin Bookert | SC African American History Calendar

Episode 2

Video

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

Rear Admiral Reubin B. Bookert is a native of Columbia, S.C. He graduated from C.A. Johnson High School in 1968 and North Carolina A&T State University with a B.S. degree. He also earned degrees in...

Apollo Recoveries: Milt Putnam, Photographer | "Chasing The Moon" Event

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 9 10 11 12

Milt Putnam, from Seneca, South Carolina, was a U.S. Navy photographer, who also served in the Vietnam War. Putnam was assigned to take official photographs of several Apollo recoveries: Apollo 8...

The Space Race, Part 2

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 5 6 7 9 10 11 12

Gemini is the not widely known bridge between Mercury, and the Apollo Program. Gemini would serve as the test-bed for Apollo; to prepare NASA for trips to the moon. After the successes with the Gemini...

The Space Race, Part 1

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 5 6 7 9 10 11 12

Part 1 briefly outlines the Cold War, and how the "Space Race" got started, with the Soviets' launching of Sputnik, in October, 1957. Next came the U.S. competing with the Soviets to launch a man into...

Orangeburg Massacre: Remembrances & Reckoning, Part 1

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 5 8

Fifty years have passed since the tragic Orangeburg Massacre occurred at South Carolina State College. With the protests at the All Star Bowling Alley mere days before, no one anticipated the massacre...

Marshall Doswel, Civil Rights Journalist | Palmetto Scene

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Marshall Doswell came to Rock Hill as the Managing Editor of The Evening Herald in 1957. After living in South Carolina for a short time, he was made aware of the racial division and tension that...

Vietnam: The Monument, The Memories | Carolina Journal (1987)

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

On November 8, 1986, the South Carolina Vietnam Monument was dedicated at Memorial Park in Columbia. In this SCETV special, Carolina Journal staff spoke with veterans about their experiences, as well...

Always First: The SC Air National Guard, Part 3

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 5 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Colonel Robert Hanley Morrell became chief of staff after McEntire's death. Morrell was a colorful character who could have been Southern Conference boxing champion before his Army Air Corp and Air...

Ku Klux Klan Resurgence in SC | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

Photo

Grades: 5 8

Conservative opposition to the gains of the civil rights and student anti-war protests led to a brief resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina in the 1960s and 1970s. This KKK meeting was held...

Rally for Support of the Vietnam War | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 4

Photo

Grades: 5 8

For a great many ordinary citizens, particularly those old enough to remember the wholehearted civilian support for the Second World War, college protests against the Vietnam War seemed unpatriotic...

The Role of the ROTC in the Vietnam War | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 3

Photo

Grades: 5 8

Other campuses experienced intense debates about the role students should take in the war. The Reserve Office Training Corps, or ROTC, became the focus both for those who supported and those who...

I. DeQuincey Newman | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

Photo

Grades: 5 8

The congressional redistricting in 1981 led to the election of I. DeQuincey Newman as the first African-American South Carolina senator since the end of Reconstruction. Here, he greets some of his new...

Marion Gressett | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

Photo

Grades: 5 8

Marion Gressett (1902-1984, see Marion Gressett And Hyman Rubin) was first elected to the South Carolina state Senate from Calhoun County in 1937. A powerful political figure during the 1950s and...

The Power and Right of African Americans to Vote | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 4

Photo

Grades: 5 8

The power and right of African-Americans to vote, guaranteed by the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, has been a major driving force behind many of the economic, political, and educational gains made...

African American Picket Protesters | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 13

Photo

Grades: 5 8

African-American protestors of segregation picket restaurants and stores on Main Street in Columbia, sometime around 1960, proclaiming "Together We Stand, Divided We Fall." Courtesy of the South...

Richard Nixon Appeals to S.C. Dixiecrats | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 11

Photo

Grades: 5 8

In 1960, Richard M. Nixon attempted to appeal to South Carolina Democrats who were unhappy with their national party's choice for president, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy. In a cartoon...

Marine Recruits Begin Training for Korean War | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 7

Photo

Grades: 5

Recruits arrive at the Yemassee station in 1950 to begin their training as marines for the Korean War. Courtesy of the United States Marine Corps Parris Island Museum.

Integration at the University of South Carolina | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 3

Photo

Grades: 5 8

Henri Monteith Treadwell (age 17), James Solomon (age 33) and Robert Anderson (age 19), speaking to news media after registering in September 1963 as the first African-American students at the...

Sit-Ins at Restaurants | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

Photo

Grades: 5 8

One of the methods of non-violent protest against segregation, taught by Martin Luther King and others in the Civil Rights Movement, was the practice of sit-ins at restaurants and coffee shops...