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8.4.CO Extender

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Sisterhood: SC Suffragists-Moving Forward, Part 5

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education Professional Development

Host Beryl Dakers asks the panel to address the “Elephant in the Room”, which is the issue of race and voting.

Sisterhood: SC Suffragists-Moving Forward, Part 4

Episode 4

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Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education Professional Development

The panel discusses the issues women face when it comes to voter suppression.

Sisterhood: SC Suffragists-Moving Forward, Part 3

Episode 3

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Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education Professional Development

Host Beryl Dakers asks the panel why it took so long for women to gain equal rights in both the U.S., and in the state of South Carolina.

Sisterhood: SC Suffragists-Moving Forward, Part 1

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education Professional Development

The roles South Carolinians played in the Women’s Suffrage Movement have often gone unheralded. This program highlights the efforts of famous South Carolina suffragists, such as the Grimke sisters...

Pages of History: The Progressive Era | Carolina Stories

Episode 5

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Grades: 8

Major James Calvin Hemphill, from Abbeville, succeeded Francis Dawson. At first, The News And Courier was impressed by Benjamin Ryan Tillman’s lambasting of “bourbon do-nothings” in power, but Tillman...

The First Suffrage Parade in South Carolina | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 3

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Grades: 5 8

The equal suffrage movement of women demanding the right to vote developed slowly in South Carolina. This parade in Aiken on January 26, 1917, claimed to be "The First Suffrage Parade in South...

First Breakfast at Camp Jackson, 1898 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

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Grades: 8

James S. White of Rock Hill kept a scrapbook of his activities as a Second Lieutenant in Company G of the first South Carolina Infantry during the Spanish-American War. Here he and his friend J.C...

The Constitution of 1895 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 10

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Grades: 8

The Constitution of 1895. This is the present Constitution of the State of South Carolina, which defines state and local governmental power. However, over the last 94 years it has been so amended, or...

The Official Dispensary Liquor Label | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 8

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Grades: 8

The official Dispensary liquor label. One of the most controversial political issues in a period when political controversy dominated state politics, was the State Dispensary, a plan under which all...

South Carolina State Legislature, 1874 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 7

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Grades: 4 8

The South Carolina State Legislature in 1874 was known as the "Republican House," a majority of whom were African-American. Engraving from "Leslie's Illustrated Weekly," September 26, 1874. Courtesy...

Portrait of Daniel H. Chamberlain, 1864 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

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Grades: 4 8

Portrait of Daniel H. Chamberlain, 1864. The events surrounding his election to the governorship in 1876 are dramatic enough to make into a movie or a television series, and can scarcely be done...

63 Members of 1868 Reconstruction Legislature | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

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Grades: 8

This "composite photograph" brings together 63 members of the 1868 Reconstruction legislature of South Carolina. Of that body, 50 were African-American, 30 were white. Colonel James G. Gibbes of...

Wade Hampton III Monument | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 4

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Grades: 8

In the aftermath of the 1876 election, Wade Hampton III stood on the steps of the State House on November 28, 1876, urging his followers to avoid acts of violence. Hampton and the Democrats elected to...

The Constitution of 1868 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

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Grades: 4 8

The Constitution of 1868. Dominated by radical Republicans, the U.S. Congress closed down the South's state governments in 1867 and ordered each state to call a constitutional convention. The Union...

Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894) | Periscope

Episode 2

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

In 1849, Amelia Bloomer became the first woman to own, operate, and edit a newspaper for women. Her paper became a voice for the women's rights movement, with articles encouraging women to participate...

The Women's Rights Movement | Periscope

Episode 1

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

Achieving the right to vote was one of many goals of the Women's Rights Movement.

The 19th Amendment | Periscope

Episode 1

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

Women celebrate the passing of the 19th Amendment in 1920. The amendment allowed them the right to vote for the first time. Photo courtesy: Business and Professional Women

Robert Smalls | Periscope

Episode 1

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

In 1839, Robert Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina. As a slave, he worked in the Charleston shipyards. After learning the local harbor and surrounding waters, 23-year-old Robert...

Southern Rebirth | Conversations on SC History

Episode 16

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Grades: 6 7 8

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History. Southern Rebirth is discussed in four lessons: Governor Benjamin Tillman 1895 Constitution Dispensary System...

Levi G. Byrd (1891-?) | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

The first chapters of the NAACP began in Charleston and Columbia in 1917. By 1929 a total of 12 chapters had been formed in the state. At that time the state organizations focused on registering Black...

Richland County - Allen University | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Allen University, which was founded in 1881 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was named in honor of Richard Allen, founder of the denomination. Established four years after the University of...

Richland County - Benedict College | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Benedict Institute was founded in 1870 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to provide education for freedmen and their children. The school was named for Stephen Benedict, an abolitionist...

Richland County - Bethel AME Church | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

The congregation of Bethel A.M.E. Church organized in 1866 and moved several times before constructing this church on Sumter Street in 1921. During the 1960s, Bethel A.M.E. served as a location for...

Tenant Farmers | Pee Dee Explorer

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Grades: 6 7 8

Learn the history of African-American tenant farmers during the era of reconstruction as Karl McAlis ter , Francis Marion University Librarian, takes us on a tour of the two remaining hewn timber...