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Standard 8-7.2

8-7.2 Analyze the movement for civil rights in South Carolina, including the impact of the landmark court cases Elmore v. Rice and Briggs v. Elliot; civil rights leaders Septima Poinsette Clark, Modjeska Monteith Simkins, and Matthew J. Perry; the Sout...

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

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Modjeska Monteith Simkins House - Tour
Modjeska Monteith Simkins House - Tour

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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
Modjeska Monteith Simkins House - Video Guide

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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...
Mahkia Green - Civil Rights Protests
Mahkia Green - Civil Rights Protests

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Grades: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Students will use the video "Rise Up" by Mahkia Green and other research to compare and contrast social justice protesters from the past and today.
 Modjeska Monteith Simkins House
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...
 Conversations About The Orangeburg Massacre, Part 1  1
Conversations About The Orangeburg Massacre, Part 1
Episode 1

Video

Grades: 5 8

South Carolina State University alumni Bonniwell Graham, W. Lloyd Walker, and Johnny A. Jones recall where they were on the S.C.S.U. campus when the shooting occurred on February 8, 1968.
Civil Rights in South Carolina
Civil Rights in South Carolina

Lesson

Grades: 8

Analyze the movement for civil rights in South Carolina, including the impact of the landmark court cases Elmore v. Rice and Briggs v. Elliot; civil rights leaders Septima Poinsette Clark, Modjeska...

 Orangeburg Massacre: Remembrances & Reckoning, Part 1 1
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...
 Orangeburg Massacre: Remembrances & Reckoning, Part 3 3
Orangeburg Massacre: Remembrances & Reckoning, Part 3
Episode 3

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Another one of the students who was present at the night of the shooting was Emma McCain. Dr. McCain was beaten by police officers that night, and now she offers her recollections of that tragic night...
 Orangeburg Massacre: Remembrances & Reckoning, Part 2 2
Orangeburg Massacre: Remembrances & Reckoning, Part 2
Episode 2

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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 6
Orangeburg Massacre: Remembrances & Reckoning, Part 6
Episode 6

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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...
Your Words Speak For Themselves
Your Words Speak For Themselves

Lesson

Grades: 8

With the exception of America’s indigenous population of Native Americans, the United States of America was populated by immigrants from different parts of the world. Each immigrant group became...