Modjeska Simkins
Columbia, SC-born civil-rights leader and public-health pioneer.
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Born 1899 in Columbia. The matriarch of South Carolina's civil-rights movement. Lobbied for the integration of state public health programs and was a key strategist on Briggs v. Elliott, one of the cases consolidated into Brown v. Board.
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Columbia, SC, USA
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