{"id":5220,"date":"2018-07-12T15:51:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T20:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2018-07-16T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T16:29:30","slug":"public-invited-to-july-23-book-launch-of-history-denied-recovering-south-carolinas-stolen-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/12\/public-invited-to-july-23-book-launch-of-history-denied-recovering-south-carolinas-stolen-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Public invited to July 23 launch of “History Denied: Recovering South Carolina’s Stolen Past”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Book Launch<\/strong>
\nMonday, July 23, <\/strong>5:30-7pm<\/strong>
\nSeibels House and Garden<\/a><\/strong>
\n1601 Richland St., Columbia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Light eats\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Cash bar
\nBooklets are FREE!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join the SC Progressive Network<\/a> in celebrating the recent publication of History Denied, Recovering South Carolina’s Stolen Past<\/em> by Network Communications Director Becci Robbins.<\/p>\n

“I learned so much on this project\u2014not the least of which is how little I know,” Robbins said. “The more I dug and read, the angrier I got about my miseducation. It’s been unsettling to know how much history we’ve been denied, and calls into question everything we’ve been taught.”<\/p>\n

History Denied<\/em> is Robbins’ fourth booklet to be funded by the Richland County Conservation Commission. She previously published a trilogy to mark the achievements of three extraordinary South Carolina women: human rights activist Modjeska Monteith Simkins, gay rights advocate Harriet Hancock, and legal pioneer Sarah Leverette. Those booklets are available free at the Network’s office, and can be downloaded online<\/a>. The History Denied<\/em> booklet will be uploaded after the launch.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>An unprecedented interracial crowd packs the Township Auditorium in Columbia for the Southern Negro Youth Congress’ 7th annual conference the weekend of Oct. 19, 1946.<\/em><\/p>\n

“This is a cautionary tale. It centers on the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC), a militant, interracial youth movement that thrived against all odds between 1937 and 1949 in the Jim Crow South. Its rise and fall\u2014and the collective amnesia that followed\u2014offers a timely warning about how history is made and unmade, and how that shapes our shared narrative.<\/p>\n

While SNYC was based in Birmingham, AL, South Carolina activists played a key role in SNYC\u2019s unlikely success. Early on, Columbia activist Modjeska Monteith Simkins served on its board, and was instrumental in bringing SNYC\u2019s 7th annual conference to Columbia in October 1946.<\/p>\n

The three-day event promised a glittering line-up of distinguished speakers\u2014including keynote W.E.B. DuBois and internationally acclaimed Paul Robeson\u2014as well as invited guests from around the world. The ambitious schedule included daytime workshops to hone the organizing skills of the young delegates.<\/p>\n

It was an unprecedented gathering, yet one that has largely been forgotten. Only recently has scholarship on the radical human rights movement in the 1930s and \u201940s emerged, enriching our understanding of the people who drove it and the critical ground they laid for those who came later.<\/p>\n

SNYC is far from the only chapter of history to be whitewashed, distorted, or erased altogether. This booklet offers a few South Carolina examples: the first Memorial Day, celebrated in war-ruined Charleston after Confederates evacuated the city in 1865; the radically democratic experiment that was Reconstruction; the widespread practice of lynchings after Reconstruction\u2019s end; and the conspiracy of silence that followed the 1934 killings of seven striking textile workers in Honea Path.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Becci Robbins<\/em><\/p>\n

It is no accident that we don\u2019t know our labor history or the darkest truths about the white supremacy built into South Carolina\u2019s very constitution, and that denial carries lasting consequences. Ignorance comes with a heavy price.<\/p>\n

This booklet is an attempt to broaden our view of the past, even if it hurts. These stories are painful, but they are also heroic. For every act of oppression, there have been acts of resistance by people willing to risk their very lives to stand for human decency and the promise upon which this country was built. Their struggles and triumphs deserve to be shared, their bravery celebrated, their work continued.<\/p>\n

This volume is not a comprehensive telling of South Carolina\u2019s forgotten resisters. The voices and contributions of women, workers, Native tribes, LGBTQ+ Americans, immigrants, and other marginalized communities also are missing or minimized in our textbooks and in the mainstream media. This is simply a reminder that what we\u2019ve been taught has largely been dominated by money, war, and the experiences of white men of privilege. That cheats a whole lot of citizens from knowing that their ancestors played important roles in the making of this state and nation.<\/p>\n

SNYC\u2019s story lays bare the very best and worst of America. We\u2019d be wise to know both.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book Launch Monday, July 23, 5:30-7pm Seibels House and Garden 1601 Richland St., Columbia Light eats\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Cash bar Booklets are FREE! Join the SC Progressive Network in celebrating the recent publication of History Denied, Recovering South Carolina’s Stolen Past … Continue reading →<\/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":[128,338,267,44],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","tag-becci-robbins","tag-history-denied","tag-modjeska-simkins-school","tag-sc-progressive-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","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=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5237,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}