Interviewer
Dr. Arnold Shankman
Files
Download Interview (113.2 MB)
Abstract
This interview was conducted with Modejeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992) who was a Civil Rights leader in South Carolina and an advocate of public and social reform. The interview began again with the questions of Mrs. Simkins family life. Her mother was a house slave until the Emancipation Proclamation and Mrs. Simkins relates stories of her childhood, parents, education, race relations, health services, nutrition and blacks in S.C. and S.C. politicians. This tape gives deep insight into the conditions, opinions, beliefs and attitudes of a black family from slavery through Reconstruction. The interview is interrupted and continued with questions from Margaret Eppehimer of the Winthrop College Public Affairs Office. Also the interview ends abruptly.
Publication Date
4-14-1980
Unique Identifier
OH 078
Format
2 Cassettes; WAV; MP3
Length
02:03:37
Restrictions
This interview is open for use.
Series
Civil Rights Movement
Disciplines
Oral History
Keywords
House slave, Emancipation Proclamation, Race Relations, Health Services, Nutrition, Politicians, Slavery, Reconstruction
Recommended Citation
Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, "Interview with Modjeska Monteith Simkins - OH 78" (1980). Winthrop University Oral History Program. OH 078.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/217
LC Subject Headings
Civil rights workers--South Carolina; Enslaved women; Slavery; Enslaved persons--Emancipation; United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation; African Americans--Education; Civil rights movements--Southern States; African Americans--Civil rights; African Americans--Southern States--Politics and government; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Southern States--Race relations; African Americans--Suffrage
