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USHC.5.CC EXTENDER

Grade(s): 11

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

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Modjeska Monteith Simkins House - Video Guide
Modjeska Monteith Simkins House - Video Guide

Document

Grades: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Students will use the first 7 questions to help follow the content discussed in the video. The last 2 questions are open-ended questions. Use questions 9 and 10 to start an open discussion on the...
Gloria Steinem (1934 - ) | Periscope
Gloria Steinem (1934 - ) | Periscope
Episode 9

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Writer and women's rights advocate Gloria Steinem helped found the magazine Ms., the first national women's magazine run by women. As an advocate, she organized political campaigns and rallies in...
Ruby Bridges | Periscope
Ruby Bridges | Periscope
Episode 5

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Ruby still lives in New Orleans. She runs the Ruby Bridges Foundation to help troubled children at William Frantz and other schools. With the group, Ruby travels the country advocating the importance...
Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles | Periscope
Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles | Periscope
Episode 4

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Ruby's friend, psychiatrist Dr. Robert Coles, wrote "The Story of Ruby Bridges." At William Frantz, Ruby attended an empty classroom. Some parents refused to let their children go to the integrated...
Policemen & Federal Marshals | Periscope
Policemen & Federal Marshals | Periscope
Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

By the time Ruby was six years old, there were new laws stating that African American and white students had to integrate, or share, schools. People such as Martin Luther King, Jr. had worked for...
Colored Water Fountain | Periscope
Colored Water Fountain | Periscope
Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Ruby was born in 1954. At the time, African-American children and white children had to attend separate schools. Segregation, or the separation of African American and white people, was practiced by...
Ruby Bridges (1960) | Periscope
Ruby Bridges (1960) | Periscope
Episode 1

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Ruby Bridges' first day at William Frantz Elementary School was very unusual. Integration, or the sharing of schools by African American and white people, had recently become law in 1960. She was one...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Legislation | Periscope
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Legislation | Periscope
Episode 6

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Grades: 9 10 11 12

Dr. King's efforts would lead to wider recognition of equal rights, education and political representation for African Americans and other minorities. For his work, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize in...
March on Washington - Crowd on the Mall | Periscope
March on Washington - Crowd on the Mall | Periscope
Episode 5

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Grades: 9 10 11 12

Dr. King traveled around the world giving speeches and organizing peaceful protests. He met with presidents to urge support for civil rights. His "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered in Washington, D...
Rosa Parks | Periscope
Rosa Parks | Periscope
Episode 4

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Grades: 9 10 11 12

In 1955, Rosa Parks, a seamstress living in Montgomery, Alabama, wanted to peacefully demonstrate what civil rights meant to her. She was arrested for sitting at the front of the bus, a place reserved...
March on Washington | Periscope
March on Washington | Periscope
Episode 3

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Grades: 9 10 11 12

Like Gandhi, Dr. King committed his life to peacefully helping people attain civil rights. Much of Dr. King's work concerned the civil rights of African Americans. During the 1950s, there were fewer...
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) | Road Trip
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) | Road Trip

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Grades: 9 10 11 12

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. addressing the crowd on Aug.28, 1963. In his well-known "I Have a Dream" speech, he said, "America has given the Negro people a bad check. It has come back marked...
Bloody Sunday | Road Trip
Bloody Sunday | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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
Civil Rights Organizations | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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
Leading the Struggle | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 9 10 11 12

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...
James Otis Lecture Series 2015 (Full Version) 1
James Otis Lecture Series 2015 (Full Version)
Episode 1

Video

Grades: 8 9 10 11 12

The South Carolina Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (SC ABOTA) presented the Seventh Annual James Otis Lecture Series in observance of National Constitution Day on September 18, 2015...
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr on Voting Rights | Road Trip
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr on Voting Rights | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 9 10 11 12

Host, Listervelt Middleton, interviews the Rev. Jesse Jackson for the ETV series FOR THE PEOPLE. In this clip learn about Jackson's roots in the Civil Rights Movement. Jackson talks about the efforts...