Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2011
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The depression of the 1920s and 1930s affected the economic and social lives of rural families in South Carolina. Farmers had to pay most of the taxes, but they were the ones with the least amount of...
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Students will research and analyze changes across the nation and in South Carolina during the 1920’s. They will then in small groups prepare exhibits for a “Roaring Arts Museum”. The museum will...
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A portrait of John G. Anderson, world renowned buggy manufacturer and auto industry pioneer, who built and lost an automotive empire in Rock Hill, S.C. John Gary Anderson was born November 27, 1861 in...
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Dr. Anne Austin Young fought the norm that women could not be at the top of their college class nor become a medical doctor. Anne was one of the first female doctors in South Carolina to practice...
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This program in the series tells the story of Dr. Wil Lou Gray who began the South Carolina Opportunity School. The program follows her from the time that she was a young girl struggling with the loss...
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The opening and closing wraparounds take place by an old abandoned tenant farm house in Pickens County near Clemson University. Here the host establishes the location and story line. The Reenactment...
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Anne Austin Young, Part 10 - Anne Young’s Work at the Mental Hospital Anne gains experience and insight in her time as a doctor at the state Mental Hospital. In a time period when women were...
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This episode is about Maude Callen (1898 -- 1990), a Nurse-Midwife, who singlehandedly brought health care to rural Pineville, S.C. and the surrounding area of Berkeley County in the early 1920s...
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"There's no such thing as bad publicity..." This remark, attributed to Irish playwright Brendan Behan, sums up the advertising philosophy of noted textile executive Elliott White Springs of Springs...
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Wil Lou Gray, Part 5 - Teaching Career Begins Wil Lou begins teaching at the rural school, though education was not considered a priority to many members of the community who were quite poor. Many...