{"id":4375,"date":"2016-05-10T18:35:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T23:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2016-05-10T18:35:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T23:35:23","slug":"sunday-social-may-15-to-discuss-sc-student-leaders-in-1940s-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/10\/sunday-social-may-15-to-discuss-sc-student-leaders-in-1940s-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Social May 15 to discuss SC student leaders in 1940s-1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/youthe-conf.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4377\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4377\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/youthe-conf.jpg\" alt=\"youthe conf\" width=\"368\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/youthe-conf.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/youthe-conf-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sunday, May 15<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 4-6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights<br \/>\npresents guest speaker<br \/>\n<strong>Dr. Bobby Donaldson<\/strong><br \/>\nat its Sunday Social series<br \/>\nheld on occasional Sundays at The Carriage House at the Robert Mills Mansion<br \/>\n1616 Blanding St., downtown Columbia (next to Township Auditorium)<\/p>\n<p><strong>USC Associate Professor of History and lead historian for the Columbia \u201863 Project Dr. Bobby Donaldson will talk about student leaders from the 1940s-1960s, the work of the SC Progressive Democratic Party, and the Southern Negro Youth Congress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donaldson will discuss and take questions about the civil rights movement in Columbia in the early 60\u2019s, including the 187 black student\u2019s arrested for praying on the grounds of the State House in 1961, at a time when blacks were not allowed to gather on the grounds. These arrests were the basis for the US Supreme Court ruling Edwards v. SC, which continues to protect citizens\u2019 right to assemble on the State House grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The SC Progressive Democratic Party of the 40s<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> was organized as a multi-racial alternative to the whites-only Democratic Party. The PDP was two decades prior to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party that pushed for racial inclusion, with Fannie Lou Hamer gaining the national spotlight at the 1964 Democratic Convention. Modjeska Simkins worked with Osceola McKaine and John McCray, and was the strategist for the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Southern Negro Youth Congress at the Township in 1946 was a highwater event of the human rights movement and a precursor to the modern civil rights movement. W.E.B. DuBoise gave the keynote speech that evening \u201cBehold the Land,\u201d considered his most powerful address. His words are as relevant today as they were then.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday Socials are a free, public component of the Modjeska School, a project of the SC Progressive Network. For details, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/modjeskaschool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/<wbr><\/wbr>modjeskaschool<\/a>, email network@scpronet.com, or call 803-808-3384.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 15 4-6pm The Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights presents guest speaker Dr. Bobby Donaldson at its Sunday Social series held on occasional Sundays at The Carriage House at the Robert Mills Mansion 1616 Blanding St., downtown Columbia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/10\/sunday-social-may-15-to-discuss-sc-student-leaders-in-1940s-1960s\/\">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":[],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","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=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4379,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/4379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}