FIRST black in SC to hold a full-time, statewide, public health position
N 34° 00.837 W 081° 02.146
17S E 496697 N 3763703
A founder of the NAACP in South Carolina lived here and was the first black in SC to hold a full-time, statewide, public health position.
Waymark Code: WM9F73
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 08/12/2010
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This house was for sixty years the home of Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992), social reformer and civil rights activist. A Columbia native, she was educated at Benedict College, then taught high school. Director of Negro Work for the SC Antituberculosis Association 1931-1942, Simkins was the first black in SC to hold a full-time, statewide, public health position.
Simkins was a founder of the SC Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As the secretary of the conference 1941-1957, Simkins hosted many meetings and planning sessions here, for cases such as Brown V Board of Education. In 1997 the house was acquired by the Collaborative for Community Trust; it was transferred to the Historic Columbia Foundation in 2007.
Erected by the Historic Columbia Foundation, the City of Columbia, and the SC Department of Transportation, 2008
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1931
More Information - Web URL: Not listed
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