Modjeska Monteith Simkins
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Modjeska Monteith Simkins was an important leader of African-American public health reform, social reform and the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina.
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Briggs v. Elliott
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Briggs v. Elliott, 342 U.S. 350, on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, challenged school segregation in Summerton, South Carolina. It was the first of the
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…Sumter, South Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina. Perhaps her most significant work took place in 1950 with the South Carolina federal court case of Briggs v. Elliott. Simkins was involved in Republican Party politics until 1952, when she switched to the Democratic Party and voted for Adlai Stevenson…
Letter sent by Levi Pearson to the Clarendon County School District, requesting that black children be provided with the same bus transportation that white children in the district received.
2003 Brown et al. v. the Board of Education of Topeka et al. Congressional Gold Medal