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Tuesday, February 26th

12 — 1 p.m.

Research Roundtable | Modjeska Simkins

Free for members
$5 for non-members

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Seibels House : 1601 Richland Street, Columbia, SC 29201

Modjeska Monteith Simkins: An Advocate for the People

Modjeska Monteith Simkins was born in Columbia, S.C. on December 5, 1899, into a society that legally dispossessed women and people of color of their civil liberties.

Over the course of her 92 years, she displayed a courage and perseverance that many argue was unmatched. Join Katharine Allen, research and archives manager, for a presentation on how Historic Columbia plans to honor her life and legacy. Discussion will focus on how primary sources from the Jim Crow period shed light on the segregated and unequal South that she fought to change.

Participants are welcome to bring their lunch to this program.

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    Discover Columbia's past through historic images and research from the Cultural Resources team by picking up a copy of Remembering Columbia by our own John Sherrer, available at the Gift Shop at Robert Mills.

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    Katharine Allen
    Research & Archives Manager
    803.252.1770 x 37

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Seibels: A Hot New Bridal Shoot Destination?

Seibels House and Garden isn’t just a great venue for your wedding and reception, they’re also an idyllic spot for bridal portraits, as well. We’re delighted to share with you Avis Washington’s recent bridal portraits with you. Avis’s pictures make great use of the neo-classical interior space at Seibels. During the spring, an...

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Thursday, April 13th: 6 — 7 p.m.

Columbia Conversations | Black life in Columbia during the late Jim Crow era

1300 Pine Street, Columbia, SC 29204

Beryl Dakers, Columbia native and pioneering broadcast journalist, will lead a conversation with professor and historian Thavolia Glymph (Duke University) and professor and author Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law School). Both were born in Columbia in the early 1950s. Growing up in Columbia “was formative in how I think about the...

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