- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Modjeska Simkins, May 11, 1990
- Creator:
- Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, 1899-1992
- Contributor to Resource:
- Egerton, John
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1990-05-11
- Subject:
- Civil rights--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States
Civil rights workers--Southern States
Segregation--Southern States
Civil rights workers--Southern States--Attitudes - People:
- Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, 1899-1992
- Location:
- United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Civil rights activist and NAACP leader Modjeska Simkins recalls the civil rights struggle in South Carolina in this spirited interview. Simkins was active in social welfare and civil rights organizations in her state, emerging as a leader in the Columbia, South Carolina, branch of the NAACP. Simkins reflects on race and history in the United States and on the nation's violent past, and provides anecdotes of activism and life in the pre-World War II segregated South.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0356/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:29:17
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
-
