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Standard 8-7 (LAST ONE!!!!) The student will demonstrate an understanding of SC’s economic revitalization during WWII

Standard 8-7 (LAST ONE!!!!) The student will demonstrate an understanding of SC’s economic revitalization during WWII and later in the 20 th century. . Economic growth DURING WWII Depression ended SC people enjoyed full employment Many men/women/black/white joined the armed forces

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Standard 8-7 (LAST ONE!!!!) The student will demonstrate an understanding of SC’s economic revitalization during WWII

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  1. Standard 8-7 (LAST ONE!!!!) The student will demonstrate an understanding of SC’s economic revitalization during WWII and later in the 20th century.

  2. Economic growth DURING WWII • Depression ended • SC people enjoyed full employment • Many men/women/black/white joined the armed forces • Military Bases expanded • New air base Economic growth AFTER WWII • Increased consumer spending • Veterans used the GI Bill to go back to school or start businesses.

  3. J. Strom Thurmond……. and his success • Governor of SC in 1947 • He encouraged Northern Industries to come to SC. • This included the expansion of ports in Charleston. (it became one of the leading ports in the U.S.) • Thurmond also supported education reform. (change). The school year was extended and 12th grade was added. • Also, SC Trade School was created as well as Tech. Colleges. • Poll tax was taken away • Divorce was allowed in SC • More highways and roads were paved

  4. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SC • The State Development Board • brought new industries to SC. • The board recruits businesses from other countries. • Other countries are attracted to SC because of tax breaks, low wages, and no unions. • Technical Education System • Trained students to be brick masons, electricians, equipment operators, and other industrial jobs. • Transportation • Improved • Roads were newly paved • highways were linked together • airplanes

  5. TOURISM • Prosperity, expanding consumerism, and changing demographics= SC becoming a tourist attraction • Rich Northerners were attracted to SC (Aiken and Camden) for weather, horse racing, hunting, large plantations turned into national parks. (Brookwood Gardens and Huntington State Park) • Cars and highways made it easier to travel • Motel, fast-food restaurant's, air-conditioning made people want to travel • Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head, Charleston were popular spots.

  6. Bye Bye Agriculture  Why? 1. Mechanization-Machines taking over. Machines replaced people. Ex: tractors. 2. Industrialization- Industry taking over. 3. Population decrease (especially African Americans) leaving the South for factory jobs *Tobacco replaced cotton. *SC economy went from being centered on agriculture to being centered on manufacturing and tourism after WWII.

  7. African Americans • Jim Crow Laws continued • NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality, Nat. Assoc. for Colored Women, Nat. Urban League were all organizations that looked for recognition of African American rights. • After WWII “victory abroad, victory at home” (Double V) campaign became part of the Civil Rights movement • Also, Martin Luther King Jr, Brown vs the Board of Education court case, and the influence of mass media.

  8. Take it to Court! • Briggs VS Elliot, 1948 • Parents of some black students in Clarendon Co. asked for the school district to pay for gas and repairs on a bus they bought to take their kids to school. (walking 18 miles) • The county’s white school had 2,375 students and 30 busses. • The black school had 6,531 students and 0 busses. • “SC Parents didn’t want integration, just equality. • This case became the 1st out of (5) other cases like it. All these cases combined were called “Brown vs The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas”. • Went all the way to the supreme court! (1954) • Result- = all school should be integrated. ASAP.

  9. Backlash…. • The result of “Brown –vs- BOEOTK” was met with violence and delay. • White Citizens Council was created to intimidate blacks and harass whites who supported integration. • Strom Thurmond wrote a book called “Southern Manifesto”. • The book bashed the supreme court for their decision to integrate and encouraged resistance . • It took until 1970 before full scale integration occurred in SC schools.

  10. Other cases…. Elmore VS Rice George Elmore sued for not being permitted to vote in the Democratic Party's Primary held on August 13, 1946, in Richland County, South Carolina.

  11. Civil rights leaders: • SeptimaPoinsette Clark : educator and civil rights activist. She founded many schools in SC. • Modjeska MonteithSimkins: was an important leader of African American public health reform, social reform and the civil rights movement in South Carolina. • Matthew J. Perry: was the first African American lawyer from the South to be appointed to the federal judiciary.

  12. Improving Schools and Education • Governors and Superintendants increased the amount of money spend on education. • Governor Richard Riley did a lot! He was eventually elected US Secretary of Education. • The EIA(Educational Improvement Act) was created and did many good things for education. Like….. BSAP(basic skills assessment program) Exit exams

  13. THE 20th CENTURY in SC • Agricultural declines • Textiles decline • Technical industries raise (Michelin and BMW) • Immigration and migration still happening • Many people moved South for better weather and more jobs • Many Hispanic Americans also came into the South • Many people worked in service industries due to the increase of tourism • Military changes (2 major bases in SC closed)

  14. TIME FOR ATEST!

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