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 ch...

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Tragedy at Orangeburg: 25 Years Later, Part 1: Intro
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Part 1 of Tragedy at Orangeburg: 25 Years Later, an introduction to the events in Orangeburg in 1968. (Documentary produced in 1993 by Beryl Dakers of South Carolina ETV.) Two reporters, Jack Bass and...
Orangeburg Massacre, Part 1 | Project Discovery
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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...
Orangeburg Massacre, Part 4 | The Big Picture
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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...
Bloody Sunday | Road Trip

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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...
Civil Rights Organizations | Road Trip

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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...
Leading the Struggle | Road Trip

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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...
Brown v. Board of Education | Road Trip

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The Plessy v. Ferguson decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case...