7 research outputs found
Modjeska Monteith Simkins Papers - Accession 411
No full textThe Modjeska Monteith Simkins Papers consist of materials relating to the work of Mrs. Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992), who was and important Civil Rights leader during the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina. Included in this collection is a University of North Carolina oral history interview transcript of a 1976 interview of Mrs. Simkins by Jacquelyn Hall, correspondence, political campaign materials, and radio talk scripts by Mrs. Simkins. There are also photocopied newspaper clippings on civil rights issues, newsletters of several civil rights groups, business reports, voting material, and program notes. Of special interest are the 1970 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Program note, the 1976 Mary McLeod Bethune Program note, and a program note including a biographical sketch of the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy. The collection also includes a number of newspapers. The collection contributes to insight into the life of Mrs. Simkins. For a comprehensive biography of Mrs. Simkins see: Women Leaders in South Carolina, Archives Records W409.2 and Aba Mecha, Barbara Woods, Black Women Activist in Twentieth Century South Carolina: Modjeska Monteith Simkins, 1978; E185.61 .A33x, Dacus Library, Winthrop University.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1453/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Modjeska Monteith Simkins - OH 646
No full textThis 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. In this interview, Simkins discusses her background, upbringing, and her education. She also discusses black politics in the South. The NAACP, the fight for blacks to vote, and the Civil Rights Movement.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1611/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Modjeska Monteith Simkins - OH 78
No full textThis 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.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1218/thumbnail.jp
A Hospital Built By Them, For Them : The Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital Building Fund Campaign and the Evolution of Black Healthcare Traditions in Columbia, South Carolina
No full textFrom 1901 through World War II, self-help ideology inspired and motivated the middle-class black community of Columbia, South Carolina to establish, staff, and support alternative hospitals and clinics to serve the region\u27s African-American population. After decades of struggling against discriminatory funding policies and in-fighting within the black community, the city\u27s two major African-American hospitals merged in the late 1930s to form the Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital (GSWH) in hopes of building a new, state-of-the-art healthcare facility. As Director of the GSWH Building Fund Campaign, Modjeska Monteith Simkins successfully incorporated self-help principles to mobilize community support and raise funds for the proposed hospital from 1944 through early 1947. When the campaign experienced financial difficulties, Simkins and the GSWH Board of Trustees took advantage of postwar federal healthcare policies to obtain funds needed to build the hospital, which opened in 1952. While federal funds made it possible for Columbia\u27s black community to realize their dream, implementation of federal healthcare policies in the 1960s contributed to the hospital\u27s decline and ultimate closure in 1973.
The extant GSWH structure is a powerful memorial for the black community\u27s activism before the Civil Rights Movement, as well as a reminder of the intersections between local institutions and the federal government in today\u27s healthcare system. This thesis situates the GSWH and Columbia\u27s black healthcare tradition within the larger regional and national historical narratives of the African-American health movement and the post-WWII expansion of federal control over healthcare. Particular emphasis is given to the meaningful contributions that African-American professional women made as advocates for improved black health in central South Carolina during the Jim Crow Era
