{"id":4159,"date":"2015-08-02T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T15:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2015-08-02T10:59:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T15:59:20","slug":"sc-lgbt-pioneer-harriet-hancock-discovers-shes-kin-to-another-pioneer-modjeska-monteith-simkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/02\/sc-lgbt-pioneer-harriet-hancock-discovers-shes-kin-to-another-pioneer-modjeska-monteith-simkins\/","title":{"rendered":"SC LGBT pioneer Harriet Hancock discovers she&#8217;s kin to another pioneer, Modjeska Monteith Simkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Harriet_Modjeskabooklet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Harriet_Modjeskabooklet-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Harriet_Modjeskabooklet\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Harriet_Modjeskabooklet-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Harriet_Modjeskabooklet.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Columbia natives Harriet Hancock and Modjeska Monteith Simkins share more than a passion for civil rights. They share a family tree rooted in the same Midlands soil.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet discovered the connection after reading about Modjeska&#8217;s family history in the SC Progressive Network&#8217;s booklet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/modjeskaschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FOR-WEB.pdf\">Modjeska Monteith Simkins: A South Carolina Revolutionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was an activist. I&#8217;m an activist,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s all about civil rights, no matter whether it&#8217;s about race or sexual orientation or transgender issues. It&#8217;s all the same. What a great thing it is that we come from the same bloodline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to her remarkable story.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hbyOWubtfhk?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia natives Harriet Hancock and Modjeska Monteith Simkins share more than a passion for civil rights. They share a family tree rooted in the same Midlands soil. Harriet discovered the connection after reading about Modjeska&#8217;s family history in the SC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/02\/sc-lgbt-pioneer-harriet-hancock-discovers-shes-kin-to-another-pioneer-modjeska-monteith-simkins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[140,250,264,253,44],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","tag-sc-progressive-network-sc-photo-id-law-sc-politics-us-justice-dept-becci-robbins","tag-civil-rights","tag-harriet-hancock","tag-modjeska-monteith-simkins","tag-sc-progressive-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}