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Standard 8-7

8-7 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the impact on South Carolina of significant events of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Orangeburg Massacre: Remembrances & Reckoning, Part 2
Episode 2

Video

In this segment, the panelists discuss Cleveland Sellers’ role in the incident. Sellers was the only “agitator” tried and convicted from what happened the night of the shooting. Dr. Sellers also joins...
Orangeburg Massacre: Remembrances & Reckoning, Part 6
Episode 6

Video

Bonniwell Graham, W. Lloyd Walker, and Johnny A. Jones were students at S.C. State College, and they share their experiences during the night of the shooting, along with some of the injuries sustained...
Minnie Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement
Minnie Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement

Lesson

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...

To the Moon and Back - Charles Duke
To the Moon and Back - Charles Duke

Lesson

In this activity students will learn about the moon and the Apollo 16 mission by playing a game that helps Charles Duke in his flight to the moon. The activity uses information from the Hall of Fame...

Voting Rights Act of 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965

Lesson

Students have studied the Fifteenth Amendment, which was supposed to have granted African-American male citizens the right to vote, as well as the Nineteenth Amendment which expanded voting rights to...