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Standard 5.4.E

5.4.E Analyze multiple perspectives on the economic, political, and social effects of the Cold War, Space Race, and Civil Rights Movement using primary and secondary sources.

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Spotlight on South Carolina History with Wilhelmina P. Johnson

Lesson

Grades: 4, 5, 6

In celebration of the December nominee of the 2024 South Carolina African American History Calendar, this lesson focuses on her role as an educator and community leader.

Celebrating Modie and Delaris Johnson Risher

Lesson

Grades: 4, 5, 6

Students will explore ways they can work to make their community and learn more about the life, impact, and contributions of Modie and Delaris Johnson Risher.

Freedom Isn't "Free"

Lesson

Grades: 2, 5

Students will explore what it means to be free and have equality for all.

Penn Center Overview | Let's Go!

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

Penn Center is one of the most significant African American historical and cultural institutions in existence today. The historic campus is located on St. Helena Island, one of the most beautiful and...

Penn Center Photo Gallery | Let's Go!

Photo

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The Penn Center, founded officially as the Penn School in 1865, is a campus of buildings dedicated to African American education in St. Helena Island, South Carolina. The original school grew out of...

3D VR - Penn Center: Brick Church | Let's Go!

Interactive

Grades: 4 5 8 11

3D VR - Penn Center: Frissell Community House | Let's Go

Interactive

Grades: 4 5 8 11

After becoming Penn Community Center in 1953, the institution began to focus on social issues affecting the well-being of the native islanders. This expanded to African Americans as a whole in the...

Women's Suffrage Movement, Part 2 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 5 8 11

The second generation of suffragists came to prominence alongside the "New Woman" movement in the early 1900's. The American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association...

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...

Mann Simons Site | Let's Go!

Video

Grades: 2 4 5 6

The Mann-Simons Site, home to the same entrepreneurial African American family for nearly 130 years, traces the journey of Columbia’s African American community from enslavement through urban renewal...

3D VR - Mann-Simons VR | Let's Go!

Interactive

Grades: 2 4 5 6

S.C. Astronauts | Venture

Video

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

South Carolina has played an important role in space exploration. Charles Duke, who grew up in Lancaster, S.C., walked on the moon in 1972. Charles Bolden, who grew up in Columbia, served as pilot on...

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...

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...

Inauguration of James B. Edwards | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

Photo

Grades: 5

James B. Edwards descends the steps of the State House with previous Governor John C. West at his January 15, 1975, inauguration as the first Republican governor of South Carolina since Reconstruction...

Desegration in SC | Conversations on SC History

Episode 20

Video

Grades: 5 8 11

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History. Desegregation and other social change in South Carolina is discussed: World War II – Catalyst for Change...

Ronald Erwin McNair | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

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

One of three astronauts inducted into the South Carolina Hall Of Fame, Ronald McNair was one of the shuttle astronauts killed in the Challenger explosion on January 28, 1986. Born and raised in Lake...

S.C. Astronauts | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 5 8

S.C. Astronauts is a mini-documentary about South Carolina's three astronauts: Charles Duke, Jr. of Apollo 16; Ronald McNair of the Space Shuttle Challenger; and Shuttle Astronaut and current NASA...

Oveta Glover | Civil Rights in S.C.

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

Civil Rights Youth Media Summit: Oveta Glover Interviewed by Cassie Nelson (Scott's Branch High School) and Tyesha Elder (A.C. Flora High School)

Victoria Eslinger | Civil Rights in S.C.

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

Civil Rights Youth Media Summit: Victoria Eslinger Interviewed by Cassie Nelson (Scott's Branch High School) and Tyesha Elder (A.C. Flora High School)

Titus Duren | Civil Rights In S.C.

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

Interviewed by Juli Cross, A.C. Flora High School and Kevin Baxter, Scott's Branch High School Titus Duren was on of the first minority students to enter Clemson University following desegregation. He...

Cecil Williams | Civil Rights in S.C.

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

Cecil Williams speaks at the Civil Rights Youth Media Summit about his photography work. Interviewed by Angelo Gooch

Ernest A. Finney | Civil Rights in S.C.

Video

Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

Civil Rights Youth Media Summit: Ernest A. Finney Interviewed by D'Asia Pelzer (C.A. Johnson High School) and Jessica Green (Scott's Branch High School)