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Part 3 of Project Discovery's look at the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary.
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Changes that took place in the United States during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries revitalized the economy and challenged traditional society and politics in South Carolina. To understand the response of South Carolina to these challenges, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the following indicators:
Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2011
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Part 1 of Project Discovery's look at the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary. In 1968, civil rights demonstrations, to desegregate a bowling alley near S.C. State University, resulted in the...
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Part 4 of the Commemoration of the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary: An interview with Martin Luther King, III, who was asked what his father would think about the events that occurred 40...
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Civil Rights leaders try to desegregate the most racist capital in the nation, Birmingham, Alabama. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S...
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) was the major civil rights organization in South Carolina. Several other organizations such as Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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There were several key leaders during the Civil Rights Movement. Despite visible leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and John F. Kennedy, young people played a major role in...
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The children of Latino families often learn English more quickly than their parents. They become the family interpreters, making phone calls, translating bills and letters and going with their parents...
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Adjusting to American schools is challenging for immigrant kids and their parents. They face a language barrier and educational systems that are very different from those in Latin American countries.
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Extended families separated by the realities of immigration yearn for contact. In this chapter a video letter goes to Mexico and Carlos Garrido of the University of Vercruz explains cultural identity...
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Dr. Elaine Lacy discusses other problems immigrants face, from getting children into school to medical care, and Maria's mother talks about feelings of isolation. Hispanic Outreach and Padres en...
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Interpreting for the family can be difficult for kids, and sometimes dangerous. Griselda got into serious trouble when she interpreted for her aunt at an Immigration Office.
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The growing Latino populations is having an impact on the economy. Some say it is positive, others disagree. Whatever we think of immigration, no one can deny that people come here to make a better...
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Griselda's case goes to court and Carlos Garrido tells us more about the consequences of deportation for Mexicans.
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Mario Bravo's father worked in South Carolina and rarely made it home to Mexico. She hardly knew him, and it broke his heart. Today more Latino men are bringing their families with them to the U.S...
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Immigrant parents worry that their children will assimilate too quickly and get into trouble. But Maria - like most immigrant kids - works hard to be successful, to prove that her parents' struggles...
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Part 1 of the story of Mary Gordon Ellis. Mary Gordon Ellis was the first female to be elected to the S.C. Legislature. The drama depicts her life as the school superintendent of Jasper County where...
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Part 3 of the story of Mary Gordon Ellis. Mary Gordon Ellis was the first female to be elected to the S.C. Legislature. The drama depicts her life as the school superintendent of Jasper County where...
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Part 5 of the story of Mary Gordon Ellis. Mary Gordon Ellis was the first female to be elected to the S.C. Legislature. The drama depicts her life as the school superintendent of Jasper County where...
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Part 4 of the story of Mary Gordon Ellis. Mary Gordon Ellis was the first female to be elected to the S.C. Legislature. The drama depicts her life as the school superintendent of Jasper County where...
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Part 2 of the story of Mary Gordon Ellis. Mary Gordon Ellis was the first female to be elected to the S.C. Legislature. The drama depicts her life as the school superintendent of Jasper County where...
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In 1974, Henry J. Clark received his Residential Building and Remodeling State License for South Carolina, one of the first for Native Americans in this state. He built and sold many houses and...
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Governors Robert McNair, Dick Riley, and James Beasley talk about Gov. McNair's role in integration. CREDIT: The Big Picture, ETV, 2007
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Joseph McDomick, Jr., former Penn Center project supervisor for over thirty years, talks about the history of the Penn Center. A history that began with the Port Royal Experiment in 1862 and the...
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Lonnie Hamilton and Joey Morant recall their experiences in the Jenkins Orphanage Band. Today, the Jenkins Orphanage Band no longer has a band to support foster kids at the orphanage, but the...