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  Interview with Modjeska Monteith Simkins

  Modjeska Monteith Simkins

  IN PROCESSING

  Civil rights activist from South Carolina, Modjeska Simkins’ 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 African American in South Carolina and South Carolina politicians. This gives deep insight into the conditions, opinions, beliefs, and attitudes of an African American family from slavery through Reconstruction. Other topics included are African American politics in the South, the NAACP, and the fight for African Americans to vote and the Civil Rights Movement.

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  Interview with Jules Hall

  Jules Hall

  In his May 10, 1979 interview with Kenneth M. Nelson, Jules “Butch” Hall recounts his time in service and the role he played in Rock Hill’s Black Panther Party. Hall also compares Friendship College to Winthrop College and shares efforts to educate the black community. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.

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  Interview with Cynthia Plair Roddey

  Cynthia P. Roddey

  In her four interviews with Cynthia Wilson on January 22, 1979, James D. Mackey on April 29, 1981, Paul Finkelstein on September 4, 1994, and Robert Ryals on September 12, 2012, Cynthia Roddey shares her experiences at Winthrop from 1964-1967. Roddey details the process of applying to Winthrop, the reaction she received from the Winthrop and Rock Hill community, and her participation in student life. Roddey includes her insight on race relations today and her hopes for the future. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.

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  Interview with Marion A. Wright and Alice Spearman Wright

  Marion A. Wright and Alice Norwood Spearman Wright

  IN PROCESSING

  This series of interviews focuses on the Civil Rights Movement, Interracial Marriage, abolition of the death penalty by the Supreme Court, the ERA (commented on by Mrs. Wright also), and interest in education (Mrs. Wright).

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  Interview with Arnetta Gladden Mackey

  Arnetta Gladden Mackey

  In her August 1975 interview with Martha Williams, the 1967 Winthrop graduate,

  Arnetta Gladden Mackey, reminisces her time at the University. Mackey shares her experience coming to Winthrop as one of the first black students after the school integrated. Mackey recalls the reaction she received from students, faculty, and members of the Rock Hill community. Mackey finally lends her answer to the question of whether or not she would do it all over again. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.