Textbook Reading:
Chapter 9 Lesson 2 (pages 296-306) |
8-7.2 Civil Rights Movement
Analyze the movement for civil rights in South Carolina, including the impact of the landmark cases Elmore v. Rice and Briggs v. Elliot; civil rights leaders Septima Poinsette Clark, Modjeska Monteith Simkins, and Matthew J. Perry, the South Carolina school equalization effort and other resistance to school integration; peaceful efforts to integrate beginning with colleges and demonstrations in South Carolina such as the Friendship Nine and the Orangeburg Massacre.