Oral history interview with Modjeska Simkins, May 11, 1990
Subtitle: interview A-0356, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Egerton, John, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Civil rights workers; African Americans; Civil rights; Race relations; Segregation; Attitudes
Other titles: Interview A-0356, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Modjeska Simkins, May 11, 1990; Oral histories of the American South.
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, S.C., branch of the NAACP. Simkins reflects on race and history in the U.S. and on the nation's violent past, and provides anecdotes of activism and life in the pre-World War II segregated South.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on July 8, 2008).

Interview participants: Modjeska Simkins, interviewee; John Egerton, interviewer.

Duration: 01:29:17.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 155.8 kilobytes, 163.5 megabytes.

Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview A-0356, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jackie Gorman. Original transcript: 44 p.

Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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