This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how Reconstruction resulted in the foundation for the struggle for civil rights. This indicator was also developed to foster inquiry into Reconstruction Era policies such as Constitutional amendme...

Grade(s): 4

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote
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Support for women’s right to vote was growing in South Carolina. A custody battle and scandal between two legendary SC families gave the women’s suffrage movement a boost in SC. Lucy Pickens Dugas was...
Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote
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Beginning in 1899, the Poppenheim sisters published a monthly magazine called The Keystone . The magazine pointed out the manner in which the Confederate “Lost Cause” movement celebrated the...
The Reconstruction Amendments
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After the Civil War, the U.S. had a long road ahead for rebuilding the country. In addition to fixing the country's infrastructure, the U.S. needed to mend the social and political inequities many...
The Reconstruction Amendments
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The question of "the peculiar institution" known as slavery had been hotly debated long before the American Civil War. This video outlines the reasons the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S...
The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
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The Rollin Sisters are essentially silenced after Reconstruction, and are forced to move away from South Carolina due to the increasing violence by “Red Shirts”, and Ku Klux Klan members. In the fight...
The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
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The South Carolina Woman Suffrage Association was founded in Columbia in 1870, with Charlotte Rollin as the Chair. A charter is created and sent to Lucy Stone, one of the founders of the American...
The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
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During this period, there were many people, including African Americans, who felt the issue of women’s suffrage was much less important than civil rights for Blacks. In the 1868 Constitutional...
The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
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The Civil War brought an abrupt change to the Rollin Family, ending a period where, according to Frances Rollin, “free people of color were at the zenith of their prosperity”. The Rollin family’s...
The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
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Frances Rollin was propelled into the national spotlight with the Pilot Boy steamship incident, in Charleston, South Carolina, where the captain refused her service due to the color of her skin...