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Modjeska Monteith Simkins poses for an unknown photographer in the 1950s. South Caroliniana Library.
(1899-1992) Modjeska Monteith Simkins was an African American civil rights activist who was the Secretary of the NAACP in South Carolina and helped write the court case for Briggs v. Elliott.