Records, 1964-1976.

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Richland County Citizens Committee (S.C.). Records, 1964-1976.

Records, 1964-1976.

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News releases, open letters, public statements and protests, radio scripts, minutes, and correspondence of Mrs. Modjeska M. Simkins, who served as director of publicity and public relations (1956-1988) re the organization's support and promotion of civil liberties, equitable law enforcement, political activism, etc. Causes represented in the papers include: opposition to closing of Booker T. Washington High School, an historically black institution that educated African-American youth prior to integration, May 1964 and undated (legal size folder); support of John Bolt Culbertson [ca. June 1968] in his campaign against Ernest F. Hollings for the U.S. Senate [Culbertson was elected to one term in the S.C. General Assembly in 1948 and is believed to be the first white member of the NAACP in South Carolina]; endorsement of reorganization of the Midlands Community Action Agency; and support of community improvement activities. Detailed statement, 1 Nov. 1969, from the RCCC directed to Look magazine and the committee that awarded the "All-America City" designation to Columbia, S.C., explaining the organization's opposition to Columbia's application for the 1969 award, based on such matters as social conditions for African Americans, and citing specific examples related to urban renewal and "Negro removal" projects in Ward 1 near the University of South Carolina, the Coliseum, the Wheeler Hill neighborhood, and elsewhere (folder 4). Statement, 17 Jan. 1966, re crime on Harden Street and the failure of the police to take action; press release, "College student slaughter denounced" [ca. Feb. 1968], re the Orangeburg Massacre of 8 Feb. 1968, "our children were fired into because they were black..." [incomplete; first page only]; letter, 8 Nov. 1969 [Columbia, S.C.] Mrs. Modjeska M. Simkins to Lyndon B. Johnson (Washington, D.C.), endorsing John B. Culbertson for an appointment as a federal judge; printed statement, 21 Nov. 1969, to the U.S. House of Representatives' Select Committee on Crime; statment, [ca. May 1971], from Simkins to Benedict College, protesting plans to award an honorary degree the 1971 graduation, "it is with great regret that I must inform you that I have cancelled plans to attend the 1971 commencement exercises which mark the fiftieth annivesary of my graduation from Benedict" (folder 5); and various flyers promoting candidates in elections at the local, state, and national levels depicting graphics that reproduce the levers in the voting booth.

71 items.

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