{"id":5175,"date":"2018-04-12T13:56:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T18:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2018-04-12T14:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T19:10:20","slug":"allen-university-chooses-modjeska-simkins-book-for-campus-read-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/12\/allen-university-chooses-modjeska-simkins-book-for-campus-read-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen University chooses Modjeska Simkins book for campus “read along”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>To celebrate Library Week, on April 11 students from Allen University took turns reading from a booklet about Modjeska Monteith Simkins that the SC Progressive Network<\/a> published in 2014. Students led what they called a “read in,” and also held a campus-wide book presentation contest. Some 200 booklets were distributed free to students in the weeks leading up to the event.<\/p>\n

“As an HBCU in Columbia, South Carolina, we chose Modjeska Monteith Simkins: A South Carolina Revolutionary<\/em> because of the outstanding leadership qualities she demonstrated throughout her life,” wrote a university spokeswoman in a message inviting our participation.<\/p>\n

Network Director Brett Bursey, who worked with Modjeska for 18 years, challenged the students to get involved in moving the state toward social, political, and economic justice.<\/p>\n

“It was so gratifying to see students gather together to remember Modjeska’s extraordinary life,” said Becci Robbins, the Network’s communication director and booklet author. “She would have loved it.”<\/p>\n

In its recent third printing, the booklet includes a new section on Modjeska’s involvement in the Southern Negro Youth Congress, which held a leadership training school at Allen University in 1947. You can download the booklet HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t