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Oral history interview with Modjeska Simkins, May 11, 1990 [electronic resource] : interview A-0356, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Summary:

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.

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Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 01:29:17.
Interview participants: Modjeska Simkins, interviewee; John Egerton, interviewer.
Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.
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.
Title from menu page (viewed on July 8, 2008).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 155.8 kilobytes, 163.5 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
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 Information Note:
Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.
Subject:
Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, 1899-1992 > Interviews.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States.
Civil rights workers > Southern States > Interviews.
Civil rights workers > Southern States > Attitudes.
Segregation > Southern States.
Southern States > Race relations.
Genre:
Oral histories.

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