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100 1 $aSimkins, Modjeska Monteith,$d1899-1992,$einterviewee.$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ive$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98065968
245 10 $aOral history interview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976 :$binterview G-0056-2, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
246 1 $iAlso cited as:$aInterview G-0056-2, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
246 30 $aInterview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976
250 $aElectronic ed.
260 $a[Chapel Hill, N.C.] :$bUniversity Library, UNC-Chapel Hill,$c2007.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
534 $pOriginal version:$tSouthern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series G, Southern women, interview G-0056-2, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$nTranscribed by Patricia Crowley.$nOriginal transcript: 138 p.
520 $aThis is the second interview in a series of two with Modjeska Simkins, an African American activist from South Carolina. In the first interview (G-0056-1), Simkins briefly described her family background, her childhood, and spoke about her work with the South Carolina Interracial Commission, primarily during the 1920s and 1930s. Here, she elaborates on her family background and upbringing before describing in great detail her work with the NAACP and the Richland County Citizens' Committee. Simkins begins by describing her childhood, spent primarily in Columbia, South Carolina, although there were times when her father's reputation as an accomplished bricklayer led them to other areas in the South, including Huntsville, Alabama. Simkins explains that her family was prosperous, and she emphasizes that her parents imbued her with a sense of responsibility to help those less advantaged. Simkins attended Benedict College for her primary through post-secondary education. Following her graduation with a bachelor's degree in 1921, Simkins taught at Benedict for a year before accepting a position teaching at Booker Washington High School in Columbia. She taught at Booker until 1929. Over the course of the 1920s, Simkins became more involved in social causes, primarily via her membership in the South Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation and the NAACP. She continued this work into the 1930s, during which time she was employed by the South Carolina Tuberculosis Association. Until 1942, Simkins worked for the TB Association, helping to educate people about health-related issues. Increasingly, however, Simkins lamented not being able to focus more explicitly on what she saw as more pressing issues for African Americans. In 1942, she took a position with the NAACP and served as the state secretary until 1956. Simkins describes in detail her role in the NAACP's shift towards direct legal action in taking on school segregation. In addition, she describes how she helped to organize a boycott in Orangeburg County around 1956 following the Brown decision and a white backlash against it in that community. Despite her support for the NAACP's legal work, however, Simkins was becoming alienated from the NAACP by the mid-1950s. She left the NAACP to become the public relations director for the Richland County Citizens' Committee. At the time of the interview, Simkins was still serving in this capacity. She spends the final portion of the interview describing her work with the Richland County Citizens' Committee, focusing on their involvement in state politics, their role in efforts to desegregate the Palmetto State Hospital in 1965, and with the integration of Columbia public schools. Throughout the interview, Simkins offers telling anecdotes about the nature of racial tensions and its consequences, the inner workings of civil rights organizations like the NAACP and the Richland County Citizens' Committee, and relationships between leaders of the movement and their related organizations.
516 $aText (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 436 kilobytes, 632 megabytes.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
538 $aSystem requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.
500 $aTitle from menu page (viewed on Dec. 5, 2008).
500 $aInterview participants: Modjeska Simkins, interviewee; Jacquelyn Hall, interviewer; Bob Hall, interviewer
500 $aDuration: 05:45:13.
500 $aThis electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
500 $aText encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.
536 $aFunding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
600 10 $aSimkins, Modjeska Monteith,$d1899-1992$vInterviews.
650 0 $aAfrican American women civil rights workers$zSouth Carolina$vInterviews.
650 0 $aCivil rights movements$zSouth Carolina.
610 20 $aNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People.$bSouth Carolina State Conference.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008180498
610 20 $aRichland County Citizens' Committee (Richland County, S.C.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008180509
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zSouth Carolina.
651 0 $aSouth Carolina$xRace relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010113258
650 0 $aSchool integration$zSouth Carolina.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zSouth Carolina$zColumbia$xSocial life and customs.
655 7 $aElectronic books.
700 1 $aHall, Jacquelyn Dowd,$einterviewer.$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78061374
700 1 $aHall, Bob,$d1944-$einterviewer.$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008101076
710 2 $aSouthern Oral History Program.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93053150
710 2 $aUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$bDocumenting the American South (Project)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96056901
710 2 $aUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$bLibrary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80120860
740 0 $aOral histories of the American South.
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio6986059$3Documenting the American South full text and audio access
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