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8.5.CE EXTENDER

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Women's Suffrage Movement, Part 2 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 2

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Grades: 5 8 11

The second generation of suffragists came to prominence alongside the "New Woman" movement in the early 1900's. The American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association...

Pages of History: Mid 20th Century | Carolina Stories

Episode 6

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Grades: 8

William Watts Ball, who had previously worked at The Evening Post and The State, became the new editor. He was an outspoken critic of “The New Deal”, along with too much government, and these views...

Marion Gressett | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

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Grades: 5 8

Marion Gressett (1902-1984, see Marion Gressett And Hyman Rubin) was first elected to the South Carolina state Senate from Calhoun County in 1937. A powerful political figure during the 1950s and...

Lester Bates | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 10

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Grades: 5 8

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...

South Carolina's "Dixiecrat" Movement | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

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Grades: 5 8

Postwar politics in South Carolina were affected by the many changes that the war had brought. Many new citizens flocked to the state, partly because of the many military bases there, and partly...

George A. Elmore (1905-1954) | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

In 1946, George Elmore attempted to vote in the all-White Democratic primary but was denied the right to vote. In February 1947, the NAACP filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court against John I...