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In this lesson, students explore the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and its ongoing impact on school equity today. After reviewing the case and its role in ending legal segregation...
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8.5.CC EXTENDER
Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
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- Higher Education
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Jannie Harriot has devoted her life to education, the preservation of South Carolina's African American history, and her family. Harriot is a graduate from several colleges, such as Fayetteville State...
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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.
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Marshall Doswell came to Rock Hill as the Managing Editor of The Evening Herald in 1957. After living in South Carolina for a short time, he was made aware of the racial division and tension that...
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- 8
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5
After retiring from Morehouse College, Dr. Mays was the first African American elected to the Atlanta Board of Education. Atlanta schools were desegregated and integrated without incident. In...
Video
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- 8
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After graduating from Bates, Benjamin Mays held several teaching positions, teaching math, and then later, English, at South Carolina State College. From 1934-1940, Mays served as dean of religion at...
Video
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- 8
Episode
4
Mays continued on with his career, meeting and advising with other world leaders. He was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to serve on the commission on civil rights, and played a role in race...
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Dr. Benjamin Mays, educator, minister, and scholar, is seen as one of the most significant figures in American history. His influence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would cause America to change its...
Video
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Dr. Mays’ relationship with Martin Luther King Jr., is probably the most significant one, and King has admitted that Mays was his influence to become a minister. Since Mays did not have any boys of...
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- 8
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In 1974, Manigault Wilcox became the editor of The News And Courier while Thomas Waring became editor of The Evening Post. Arthur Wilcox believed in effective on-the-job training, and several former...
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On October 1, 1991, The News And Courier merged with The Evening Post, in order to print newspapers which would be bigger and better than their predecessors. This newspaper would become what we know...
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One of Fort Jackson’s crowning achievements is leading the way in race and gender integration in the military.
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On November 8, 1986, the South Carolina Vietnam Monument was dedicated at Memorial Park in Columbia. In this SCETV special, Carolina Journal staff spoke with veterans about their experiences, as well...
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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...
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Other campuses experienced intense debates about the role students should take in the war. The Reserve Office Training Corps, or ROTC, became the focus both for those who supported and those who...
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The Vietnam War inspired student protests against U.S. actions on many college and university campuses, which often ended in violence between student protestors and campus or local municipal police...
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South Carolina native Jesse Jackson, born in Greenville in poverty, became an important national African-American leader because of his charismatic personality and his organization of African-American...
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African-American protestors of segregation picket restaurants and stores on Main Street in Columbia, sometime around 1960, proclaiming "Together We Stand, Divided We Fall." Courtesy of the South...
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The growing pressures brought to bear against legal segregation by the federal court system, that culminated in the 1954 Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. The Board of Education" of Topeka, Kansas...
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Henri Monteith Treadwell (age 17), James Solomon (age 33) and Robert Anderson (age 19), speaking to news media after registering in September 1963 as the first African-American students at the...
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February is African American History Month. Some may ask “Why celebrate African American history...isn’t that American history?” Absolutely, but unfortunately, for hundreds of years, much of the...
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Episode
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Mamie "Peanut" Johnson challenged the traditional role of female athletes by entering the men's Negro Major League in 1953. She was the only female pitcher and only one of three women to play in the...
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Jean Hoefer Toal was elected the Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court on March 23, 2000. As Chief Justice, she presides over the highest court in South Carolina. Her court sets the rules...
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Cecil J. Williams is the author of Freedom & Justice. He is a noted civil rights photographer. At 14-years old, Williams was hired by JET Magazine to record the images of the civil rights movement in...