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| Gladbeck HostagesEvery decade has its share of important events. But this completely engrossing series highlights only the best, the most far-reaching, the most worldly, and the most consequential of the 1980s.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Freedom Summer SNCCThe 1964 campaign by civil rights activists to register African-American voters in Mississippi became known as the "Freedom Summer."Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Selma 1965 IIIIn 1965 the town of Selma, Alabama was the scene of protests and brutal repression. The results: A march to Montgomery and a new voting rights bill.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Selma 1965 IIn the long civil rights struggle of African Americans, few places have greater significance than Selma, Alabama.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Selma 1965 IIIn 1965, protests against voting restrictions for blacks brought forces led by Martin Luther King, Jr. into conflict with white resisters in Selma, Alabama.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Reconfiguring Virginia: IntroductionThis program looks at why some Virginians decided to take the state out of the union, and why other Virginians decided to divide Virginia and form a new state.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 History-Social Science |
| The ConventionDespite the opposition of Governor Letcher, the Virginia General Assembly called for a state convention to consider the issue of succession. Delegates to the convention were elected on February 4, 1861, the same day other southern states met in Montgomery, Alabama to form the Confederate States of America.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 History-Social Science |
| Election of Abraham LincolnThe creation of West Virginia was not purely a political process carried out at conventions by delegates. It was a product of war and military victories...some of the first battles of the Civil War. It's a story with roots deep in Virginia's past. This program begins its look at this time with the election of Abraham Lincoln.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 History-Social Science |
| Fort SumterSince their own succession from the Union, South Carolinians had been mobilizing, for months, to occupy federal forts...and Lincoln was resolved to hold those forts. These tensions came to a head on April 12, 1861 when South Carolina forces fired on Fort Sumter.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 History-Social Science |
| A Separation of StateWhile Virginians went to the polls to vote, some leading men from the western counties were already meeting to consider forming a separate government.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 History-Social Science |
