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History 599A: Senllnar in South Carolina Studies
July 22, 2004
Lesson Plan: 1954-2004: Where the Decision to Desegregate Has Taken Us
Correlation: This lesson is correlated to Indicator 8-7.4, explainingthe factors that
influencedthe economic opportunities of African American South Carolinians during the
later twentieth century, includingracial discrinrinationand the Briggs vs. Elliot case.
Objective: By reading and analyzingnewspaper accounts commemorating the 50th
Anniversaryof the Brown v. Board of Education decision, specificallythe Briggs v.
Elliot case in South Carolina, students will increase their understanding of the plight of
blacks in segregation-era South Carolina and judge the extent of change that has occurred
in the past half-century.
Activities: Students will use the No Longer Separate CD-ROM produced by The State
Newspaper in Columbia, Sc. The CD-ROM is divided into four parts. Students will
read features included in each part then answer questions and draw conclusions based on
their reading.
Part One:
Read the article No Longer Separate: 4-Family of Fighters: Education
Makes All the Difference.
. Who were the brothers who brought the lawsuit that eventually
becameknownas Briggsv. Elliot?
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What were their complaints?
Give two specific examples of discrinrinationsuffered by the family.
Explain what Aaron Witherspoon means when he says, "Without
struggle, there is no progress; when I think of that, I think of my family."
Read the Article Scott's Branch Students Retell Stories of Past.
. Choose one of the students whose writing is featured. Compare the
opportunities and goals of that student to the opportunities available to the
subject of their essay.
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Part Two:
Read the article S.C. NAACP Forced State's Hand on Teacher Pay,
Equality
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What were the two parts of the NAACP strategy for improving
education in 1940s South Carolina?
. What were conditions like for black students in Clarendon County
during this time?
Read the article Fate stepped in and blacks registered to vote.
. What obstacles to voting did blacks face in exercisingtheir right to
vote?
Read the article Simkins helped organize NAACP, then served it well
. What specifichelp did Modjeska Monteith Simkins offer to Rev.
Joseph A. DeLaine in 1949?
. Why would the University of South Carolina be interested in the
preservation of the papers ofModjeska Monteith Simkins?
History 599A: Seminar in South Carolina Studies
July 22, 2004
Part Three
Read the article Years of Resistance to Equal Rights part of State History
. What efforts were made in South Carolina to fully integrate schools in
the years between 1954 and 1970?
. What methods did whites use to resist change during the 16 years
between the Brown v. Board of Education decision and full public school
integration in South Carolina?
Part Four:
Read the Claudia Smith Brinson column titled Echoes of Brown
Reverberate in Abbeville.
. In what ways does Brinson think South Carolina is still at the
beginning of the process of offering what the South Carolina Supreme
Court called an "opportunity for each child to receive a minimally
adequate education?" What evidence does she offer to support her claim?
. Write your own commentary on how public education has changed in
South Carolina during the last 50 years. What has improved? What still
needs improvement? Your commentary should have an introduction,
body, and conclusion. Make your point in the introduction, and then
support the point with details in the body. Use the conclusion to restate
your main idea.
Materials:
"No Longer Separate" The State (Columbia, SC). CD-ROM. Columbia: The StateRecordCo. 2004. Availableftom www.thestatestore.com
Assessment: Students may be graded on their answers and reflective writing. Grades
would be based on accuracy, completeness of thought, and use of reason to
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Criteria
Part I Questions
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Part II Questions
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Part III Questions
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Part IV Questions
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Overall presentation
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pts.
4
Information is
completely
accurate.
Infonnation is
completely
accurate.
3
Information is
mostly accurate.
2
Infonnation is
somewhat accurate.
1
Little or no accurate
infonnation is provided.
Information is
mostly accurate.
Infonnation is
somewhat accurate.
Little or no accurate
information is provided.
Information is
completely
accurate.
Information is
completely
accurate.
Grammar, spelling
and word usage are
correct.
Information is
mostly accurate.
Information is
somewhat accurate.
Little or no accurate
information is provided.
Information is
mostly accurate.
Information is
somewhat accurate.
Little or no accurate
information is provided.
Minimal errors in
grammar, spelling
and word usage.
Frequent repetitive
errors.
Major errors that
interfere with
cOII\lllunication.