SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK PO Box 8325, Columbia, SC 29202 • 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia 29201. Our offices are under renovation. We can’t wait for a post-pandemic grand opening. 803.808.3384 • network@scpronet.com. MISSION. The purpose of the SC Progressive Network Education Fund is to promote — through education and action — human, civil, and workers ABOUT – SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK The South Carolina Progressive Network is a coalition of organizations and individual activists from across the state who have joined forces to promote social and economic justice in the Palmetto State. Launched in 1996, the Network was created to engage South Carolinians in MODJESKA SIMKINS SCHOOL The Modjeska Simkins School was launched in 2015 to teach South Carolinians the history of their state that is often glossed over or left out of our school textbooks. CLASS 1: IN THE BEGINNING Dr. Will Goins, United Tribes of SC, gave a brief history of South Carolina’s earliest people at the Modjeska Simkins School in March 2017. Dr. Goins died on Nov. 11, 2017, after a life dedicated to education and service. Read his obituary.
CLASS SCHEDULE
Concludes with showing of an SCETV documentary on Modjeska Simkins. Class 1 – March 15. In the beginning – 1800: Early habitation through Native presence, the Barbadian influence on a slave economy, SC’s early constitution, and the US Constitution of 1787. Class 2 – March 22. 1800-1894: The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1850.
CLASS 6: 1970-1995
The Natural Guard was founded at GROW to lead regional anti-nuclear organizing and serve as the field outside the gates of the Bomb Plant. A small village was established complete with alternative energy, a helicopter pad for the media and a giant stage. In spring of 1979, without telling anyone that Jackson Browne would be performing, they held a rally of more than 5,000 people. BY WILL MOREAU GOINS PH.D. for this publication about South Carolina and the American Indian Holocaust. In every story of indigenous genocide and oppression, no matter how enslaved, enshackled or beaten, we are, and we find a way to survive and rescue others.Yes, we also have heroes, that surface in THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native THE BEDFORD SERIES IN HISTORY AND CULTURE Foreword The Bedford Series in History and Culture is designed so that readers can study the past as historians do. The historian's first task is finding the evidence. THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF AMERICAN INDIAN SLAVERY The Forgotten Story of American Indian Slavery When Americans think of slavery, our minds create images of Africans inhumanely crowded aboard ships plying the middle passage from Africa, or of blacks stooped to pick cotton in
SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK PO Box 8325, Columbia, SC 29202 • 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia 29201. Our offices are under renovation. We can’t wait for a post-pandemic grand opening. 803.808.3384 • network@scpronet.com. MISSION. The purpose of the SC Progressive Network Education Fund is to promote — through education and action — human, civil, and workers ABOUT – SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK The South Carolina Progressive Network is a coalition of organizations and individual activists from across the state who have joined forces to promote social and economic justice in the Palmetto State. Launched in 1996, the Network was created to engage South Carolinians in MODJESKA SIMKINS SCHOOL The Modjeska Simkins School was launched in 2015 to teach South Carolinians the history of their state that is often glossed over or left out of our school textbooks. CLASS 1: IN THE BEGINNING Dr. Will Goins, United Tribes of SC, gave a brief history of South Carolina’s earliest people at the Modjeska Simkins School in March 2017. Dr. Goins died on Nov. 11, 2017, after a life dedicated to education and service. Read his obituary. CLASS SCHEDULE
Concludes with showing of an SCETV documentary on Modjeska Simkins. Class 1 – March 15. In the beginning – 1800: Early habitation through Native presence, the Barbadian influence on a slave economy, SC’s early constitution, and the US Constitution of 1787. Class 2 – March 22. 1800-1894: The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1850.
CLASS 6: 1970-1995
The Natural Guard was founded at GROW to lead regional anti-nuclear organizing and serve as the field outside the gates of the Bomb Plant. A small village was established complete with alternative energy, a helicopter pad for the media and a giant stage. In spring of 1979, without telling anyone that Jackson Browne would be performing, they held a rally of more than 5,000 people. BY WILL MOREAU GOINS PH.D. for this publication about South Carolina and the American Indian Holocaust. In every story of indigenous genocide and oppression, no matter how enslaved, enshackled or beaten, we are, and we find a way to survive and rescue others.Yes, we also have heroes, that surface in THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native THE BEDFORD SERIES IN HISTORY AND CULTURE Foreword The Bedford Series in History and Culture is designed so that readers can study the past as historians do. The historian's first task is finding the evidence. THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF AMERICAN INDIAN SLAVERY The Forgotten Story of American Indian Slavery When Americans think of slavery, our minds create images of Africans inhumanely crowded aboard ships plying the middle passage from Africa, or of blacks stooped to pick cotton in
CALENDAR – SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK Calendar. Check with our member organizations and project coordinators for details about meetings during the pandemic. In March, the Network suspended its monthly meetings to reorganize and focus on renovating our HQ. We can’t wait for a post-pandemic grand opening. CLASS SCHEDULE
Concludes with showing of an SCETV documentary on Modjeska Simkins. Class 1 – March 15. In the beginning – 1800: Early habitation through Native presence, the Barbadian influence on a slave economy, SC’s early constitution, and the US Constitution of 1787. Class 2 – March 22. 1800-1894: The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1850.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND STAFF Education Fund Executive Committee Cochairs Marjorie Hammock holds an MSW degree from Howard University and has completed course work for the Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work Degree at USC. She has 55 years of experience in a wide range of social work and social justice advocacy. She recently retired as a professor at Benedict College and lives in Columbia.
CLASS 6, 1968-1978
The Southern Strategy, born-again Republicans organize, and modern liberation movements. Harry Dent and Lee Atwater. From 1965 to 1968, Harry Dent was chairman of the S.C. Republican Party.Along with Clarke Reed of Mississippi and Howard “Bo” Callaway of Georgia, Dent is considered one of the architects of the Southern Strategy.The elder Dent worked for Strom Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, and CLASS 7: 1968-1996
Understanding Vietnam and the radicalization of SC soldiers and students, the emergence of GROW, the Natural Guard, and POINT newspaper Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s warning on Vietnam CLASS 4: 1946-1954
Judge Waites Waring • Southern Negro Youth Congress • Briggs v. Elliott • Student activism Separate and Unequal. The late 1940s saw the groundwork laid in Clarendon County for Briggs v.Elliott, a case that would have significant national implications when heard by the Supreme Court in the early 1950s with five other cases that came to be known as Brown v.
INSIDE THE MONKEY FARM Among Bionetics' corporate satellites is LABS of Virginia, Inc., which operates three primate research and breeding centers in South Carolina—one in Yemassee, another six miles away in Early Branch, and a third on Morgan Island, some 400 wild acres in the St. Helena Sound where the company maintains colonies of rhesus macaques. 5 PERCENTERS
Five Percent Nation is a loose-knit religious organization that split from the Nation of Islam in 1964.The group's lack of structure and young members have prompted the South Carolina Department of Corrections to label the group a "security threat," and treat it as a "gang."
THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native GHOSTS OF EDGEFIELD COUNTY Stay long enough and you will understand the real Edgefield County, sprawling along the Georgia border like some great sick beast sullen and brooding, uneasy, malevolent, the stench of its old segregated systems buzzing its blacktop highways like hot flies on the rotting veins of a dying regime, the clay ground so dank and red it seems as if it was oozing up blood from the bodies of the SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK PO Box 8325, Columbia, SC 29202 • 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia 29201. Our offices are under renovation. We can’t wait for a post-pandemic grand opening. 803.808.3384 • network@scpronet.com. MISSION. The purpose of the SC Progressive Network Education Fund is to promote — through education and action — human, civil, and workers ABOUT – SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK The South Carolina Progressive Network is a coalition of organizations and individual activists from across the state who have joined forces to promote social and economic justice in the Palmetto State. Launched in 1996, the Network was created to engage South Carolinians in MODJESKA SIMKINS SCHOOL The Modjeska Simkins School was launched in 2015 to teach South Carolinians the history of their state that is often glossed over or left out of our school textbooks. CLASS 1: IN THE BEGINNING Dr. Will Goins, United Tribes of SC, gave a brief history of South Carolina’s earliest people at the Modjeska Simkins School in March 2017. Dr. Goins died on Nov. 11, 2017, after a life dedicated to education and service. Read his obituary. CLASS SCHEDULE
Concludes with showing of an SCETV documentary on Modjeska Simkins. Class 1 – March 15. In the beginning – 1800: Early habitation through Native presence, the Barbadian influence on a slave economy, SC’s early constitution, and the US Constitution of 1787. Class 2 – March 22. 1800-1894: The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1850.
CLASS 6: 1970-1995
The Natural Guard was founded at GROW to lead regional anti-nuclear organizing and serve as the field outside the gates of the Bomb Plant. A small village was established complete with alternative energy, a helicopter pad for the media and a giant stage. In spring of 1979, without telling anyone that Jackson Browne would be performing, they held a rally of more than 5,000 people. BY WILL MOREAU GOINS PH.D. for this publication about South Carolina and the American Indian Holocaust. In every story of indigenous genocide and oppression, no matter how enslaved, enshackled or beaten, we are, and we find a way to survive and rescue others.Yes, we also have heroes, that surface in THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native THE BEDFORD SERIES IN HISTORY AND CULTURE Foreword The Bedford Series in History and Culture is designed so that readers can study the past as historians do. The historian's first task is finding the evidence. THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF AMERICAN INDIAN SLAVERY The Forgotten Story of American Indian Slavery When Americans think of slavery, our minds create images of Africans inhumanely crowded aboard ships plying the middle passage from Africa, or of blacks stooped to pick cotton in
SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK PO Box 8325, Columbia, SC 29202 • 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia 29201. Our offices are under renovation. We can’t wait for a post-pandemic grand opening. 803.808.3384 • network@scpronet.com. MISSION. The purpose of the SC Progressive Network Education Fund is to promote — through education and action — human, civil, and workers ABOUT – SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK The South Carolina Progressive Network is a coalition of organizations and individual activists from across the state who have joined forces to promote social and economic justice in the Palmetto State. Launched in 1996, the Network was created to engage South Carolinians in MODJESKA SIMKINS SCHOOL The Modjeska Simkins School was launched in 2015 to teach South Carolinians the history of their state that is often glossed over or left out of our school textbooks. CLASS 1: IN THE BEGINNING Dr. Will Goins, United Tribes of SC, gave a brief history of South Carolina’s earliest people at the Modjeska Simkins School in March 2017. Dr. Goins died on Nov. 11, 2017, after a life dedicated to education and service. Read his obituary. CLASS SCHEDULE
Concludes with showing of an SCETV documentary on Modjeska Simkins. Class 1 – March 15. In the beginning – 1800: Early habitation through Native presence, the Barbadian influence on a slave economy, SC’s early constitution, and the US Constitution of 1787. Class 2 – March 22. 1800-1894: The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1850.
CLASS 6: 1970-1995
The Natural Guard was founded at GROW to lead regional anti-nuclear organizing and serve as the field outside the gates of the Bomb Plant. A small village was established complete with alternative energy, a helicopter pad for the media and a giant stage. In spring of 1979, without telling anyone that Jackson Browne would be performing, they held a rally of more than 5,000 people. BY WILL MOREAU GOINS PH.D. for this publication about South Carolina and the American Indian Holocaust. In every story of indigenous genocide and oppression, no matter how enslaved, enshackled or beaten, we are, and we find a way to survive and rescue others.Yes, we also have heroes, that surface in THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native THE BEDFORD SERIES IN HISTORY AND CULTURE Foreword The Bedford Series in History and Culture is designed so that readers can study the past as historians do. The historian's first task is finding the evidence. THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF AMERICAN INDIAN SLAVERY The Forgotten Story of American Indian Slavery When Americans think of slavery, our minds create images of Africans inhumanely crowded aboard ships plying the middle passage from Africa, or of blacks stooped to pick cotton in
CALENDAR – SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK Calendar. Check with our member organizations and project coordinators for details about meetings during the pandemic. In March, the Network suspended its monthly meetings to reorganize and focus on renovating our HQ. We can’t wait for a post-pandemic grand opening. CLASS SCHEDULE
Concludes with showing of an SCETV documentary on Modjeska Simkins. Class 1 – March 15. In the beginning – 1800: Early habitation through Native presence, the Barbadian influence on a slave economy, SC’s early constitution, and the US Constitution of 1787. Class 2 – March 22. 1800-1894: The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1850.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND STAFF Education Fund Executive Committee Cochairs Marjorie Hammock holds an MSW degree from Howard University and has completed course work for the Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work Degree at USC. She has 55 years of experience in a wide range of social work and social justice advocacy. She recently retired as a professor at Benedict College and lives in Columbia.
CLASS 6, 1968-1978
The Southern Strategy, born-again Republicans organize, and modern liberation movements. Harry Dent and Lee Atwater. From 1965 to 1968, Harry Dent was chairman of the S.C. Republican Party.Along with Clarke Reed of Mississippi and Howard “Bo” Callaway of Georgia, Dent is considered one of the architects of the Southern Strategy.The elder Dent worked for Strom Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, and CLASS 7: 1968-1996
Understanding Vietnam and the radicalization of SC soldiers and students, the emergence of GROW, the Natural Guard, and POINT newspaper Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s warning on Vietnam CLASS 4: 1946-1954
Judge Waites Waring • Southern Negro Youth Congress • Briggs v. Elliott • Student activism Separate and Unequal. The late 1940s saw the groundwork laid in Clarendon County for Briggs v.Elliott, a case that would have significant national implications when heard by the Supreme Court in the early 1950s with five other cases that came to be known as Brown v.
INSIDE THE MONKEY FARM Among Bionetics' corporate satellites is LABS of Virginia, Inc., which operates three primate research and breeding centers in South Carolina—one in Yemassee, another six miles away in Early Branch, and a third on Morgan Island, some 400 wild acres in the St. Helena Sound where the company maintains colonies of rhesus macaques. 5 PERCENTERS
Five Percent Nation is a loose-knit religious organization that split from the Nation of Islam in 1964.The group's lack of structure and young members have prompted the South Carolina Department of Corrections to label the group a "security threat," and treat it as a "gang."
THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native GHOSTS OF EDGEFIELD COUNTY Stay long enough and you will understand the real Edgefield County, sprawling along the Georgia border like some great sick beast sullen and brooding, uneasy, malevolent, the stench of its old segregated systems buzzing its blacktop highways like hot flies on the rotting veins of a dying regime, the clay ground so dank and red it seems as if it was oozing up blood from the bodies of the SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK PO Box 8325, Columbia, SC 29202 • 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia 29201. Our offices are under renovation. We can’t wait for a post-pandemic grand opening. 803.808.3384 • network@scpronet.com. MISSION. The purpose of the SC Progressive Network Education Fund is to promote — through education and action — human, civil, and workers ABOUT – SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK The South Carolina Progressive Network is a coalition of organizations and individual activists from across the state who have joined forces to promote social and economic justice in the Palmetto State. Launched in 1996, the Network was created to engage South Carolinians in MODJESKA SIMKINS SCHOOL The Modjeska Simkins School was launched in 2015 to teach South Carolinians the history of their state that is often glossed over or left out of our school textbooks. CLASS 6: 1970-2020
Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights. Launched in 2015, the Modjeska School is a civic engagement institute designed to help citizens of all ages learn how to promote democracy and justice in South Carolina. Guided by Modjeska Simkins’ fighting spirit, classes explore the darker side of the state’s history and link those events to current issues of economic and social injustice that CLASS 1: IN THE BEGINNING Dr. Will Goins, United Tribes of SC, gave a brief history of South Carolina’s earliest people at the Modjeska Simkins School in March 2017. Dr. Goins died on Nov. 11, 2017, after a life dedicated to education and service. Read his obituary. CLASS 6: 1970-1995
The Natural Guard was founded at GROW to lead regional anti-nuclear organizing and serve as the field outside the gates of the Bomb Plant. A small village was established complete with alternative energy, a helicopter pad for the media and a giant stage. In spring of 1979, without telling anyone that Jackson Browne would be performing, they held a rally of more than 5,000 people. BY WILL MOREAU GOINS PH.D. for this publication about South Carolina and the American Indian Holocaust. In every story of indigenous genocide and oppression, no matter how enslaved, enshackled or beaten, we are, and we find a way to survive and rescue others.Yes, we also have heroes, that surface in THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native THE BEDFORD SERIES IN HISTORY AND CULTURE Foreword The Bedford Series in History and Culture is designed so that readers can study the past as historians do. The historian's first task is finding the evidence. THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF AMERICAN INDIAN SLAVERY The Forgotten Story of American Indian Slavery When Americans think of slavery, our minds create images of Africans inhumanely crowded aboard ships plying the middle passage from Africa, or of blacks stooped to pick cotton in
SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK PO Box 8325, Columbia, SC 29202 • 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia 29201. Our offices are under renovation. We can’t wait for a post-pandemic grand opening. 803.808.3384 • network@scpronet.com. MISSION. The purpose of the SC Progressive Network Education Fund is to promote — through education and action — human, civil, and workers ABOUT – SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK The South Carolina Progressive Network is a coalition of organizations and individual activists from across the state who have joined forces to promote social and economic justice in the Palmetto State. Launched in 1996, the Network was created to engage South Carolinians in MODJESKA SIMKINS SCHOOL The Modjeska Simkins School was launched in 2015 to teach South Carolinians the history of their state that is often glossed over or left out of our school textbooks. CLASS 6: 1970-2020
Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights. Launched in 2015, the Modjeska School is a civic engagement institute designed to help citizens of all ages learn how to promote democracy and justice in South Carolina. Guided by Modjeska Simkins’ fighting spirit, classes explore the darker side of the state’s history and link those events to current issues of economic and social injustice that CLASS 1: IN THE BEGINNING Dr. Will Goins, United Tribes of SC, gave a brief history of South Carolina’s earliest people at the Modjeska Simkins School in March 2017. Dr. Goins died on Nov. 11, 2017, after a life dedicated to education and service. Read his obituary. CLASS 6: 1970-1995
The Natural Guard was founded at GROW to lead regional anti-nuclear organizing and serve as the field outside the gates of the Bomb Plant. A small village was established complete with alternative energy, a helicopter pad for the media and a giant stage. In spring of 1979, without telling anyone that Jackson Browne would be performing, they held a rally of more than 5,000 people. BY WILL MOREAU GOINS PH.D. for this publication about South Carolina and the American Indian Holocaust. In every story of indigenous genocide and oppression, no matter how enslaved, enshackled or beaten, we are, and we find a way to survive and rescue others.Yes, we also have heroes, that surface in THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native THE BEDFORD SERIES IN HISTORY AND CULTURE Foreword The Bedford Series in History and Culture is designed so that readers can study the past as historians do. The historian's first task is finding the evidence. THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF AMERICAN INDIAN SLAVERY The Forgotten Story of American Indian Slavery When Americans think of slavery, our minds create images of Africans inhumanely crowded aboard ships plying the middle passage from Africa, or of blacks stooped to pick cotton in
CALENDAR – SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK Calendar. Check with our member organizations and project coordinators for details about meetings during the pandemic. In March, the Network suspended its monthly meetings to reorganize and focus on renovating our HQ. We can’t wait for a post-pandemic grand opening. CLASS SCHEDULE
Concludes with showing of an SCETV documentary on Modjeska Simkins. Class 1 – March 15. In the beginning – 1800: Early habitation through Native presence, the Barbadian influence on a slave economy, SC’s early constitution, and the US Constitution of 1787. Class 2 – March 22. 1800-1894: The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1850.
CLASS 6, 1968-1978
The Southern Strategy, born-again Republicans organize, and modern liberation movements. Harry Dent and Lee Atwater. From 1965 to 1968, Harry Dent was chairman of the S.C. Republican Party.Along with Clarke Reed of Mississippi and Howard “Bo” Callaway of Georgia, Dent is considered one of the architects of the Southern Strategy.The elder Dent worked for Strom Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, and EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND STAFF Education Fund Executive Committee Cochairs Marjorie Hammock holds an MSW degree from Howard University and has completed course work for the Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work Degree at USC. She has 55 years of experience in a wide range of social work and social justice advocacy. She recently retired as a professor at Benedict College and lives in Columbia.
MMS SPRING CLASS
Blog Post Image: MMS spring class. Published July 25, 2019 at 792 × 348 in MMS spring class. Previous CLASS 4: 1946-1954
Judge Waites Waring • Southern Negro Youth Congress • Briggs v. Elliott • Student activism Separate and Unequal. The late 1940s saw the groundwork laid in Clarendon County for Briggs v.Elliott, a case that would have significant national implications when heard by the Supreme Court in the early 1950s with five other cases that came to be known as Brown v.
2021 CLASS RECORDINGS Guests: Mandy Carter, Kevin Alexander Gray, Harriet Hancock, and Robert-John Hinojosa GHOSTS OF EDGEFIELD COUNTY Stay long enough and you will understand the real Edgefield County, sprawling along the Georgia border like some great sick beast sullen and brooding, uneasy, malevolent, the stench of its old segregated systems buzzing its blacktop highways like hot flies on the rotting veins of a dying regime, the clay ground so dank and red it seems as if it was oozing up blood from the bodies of the THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native HARRIET HANCOCK
Harriet Hancock 8 a H arriet’s family tree is deeply rooted in the Carolina soil. On her maternal side, she is a descendant of Col. Thomas Taylor, a
SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK PO Box 8325, Columbia, SC 29202 • 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia 29201. Our offices are under renovation. We can’t wait for a post-pandemic grand opening. 803.808.3384 • network@scpronet.com. MISSION. The purpose of the SC Progressive Network Education Fund is to promote — through education and action — human, civil, and workers ABOUT – SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK The South Carolina Progressive Network is a coalition of organizations and individual activists from across the state who have joined forces to promote social and economic justice in the Palmetto State. Launched in 1996, the Network was created to engage South Carolinians in MODJESKA SIMKINS SCHOOL The Modjeska Simkins School was launched in 2015 to teach South Carolinians the history of their state that is often glossed over or left out of our school textbooks. CLASS SCHEDULE
Concludes with showing of an SCETV documentary on Modjeska Simkins. Class 1 – March 15. In the beginning – 1800: Early habitation through Native presence, the Barbadian influence on a slave economy, SC’s early constitution, and the US Constitution of 1787. Class 2 – March 22. 1800-1894: The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1850.
CLASS 1: IN THE BEGINNING Dr. Will Goins, United Tribes of SC, gave a brief history of South Carolina’s earliest people at the Modjeska Simkins School in March 2017. Dr. Goins died on Nov. 11, 2017, after a life dedicated to education and service. Read his obituary. CLASS 6: 1970-1995
The Natural Guard was founded at GROW to lead regional anti-nuclear organizing and serve as the field outside the gates of the Bomb Plant. A small village was established complete with alternative energy, a helicopter pad for the media and a giant stage. In spring of 1979, without telling anyone that Jackson Browne would be performing, they held a rally of more than 5,000 people. SHUT UP AND SKATE
Shut Up and Skate! BY ALEX TODOROVIC. Get out with your skateboard-flipping sissy street style; Bieringville is for old-school skaters who hunger for vertiginous heights. These guys follow the waning sun to a place on James Island every day to sacrifice their bodies at the altar of the Vertical Rush. The art of vert skating is as much knowing
GHOSTS OF EDGEFIELD COUNTY Stay long enough and you will understand the real Edgefield County, sprawling along the Georgia border like some great sick beast sullen and brooding, uneasy, malevolent, the stench of its old segregated systems buzzing its blacktop highways like hot flies on the rotting veins of a dying regime, the clay ground so dank and red it seems as if it was oozing up blood from the bodies of the BY WILL MOREAU GOINS PH.D. for this publication about South Carolina and the American Indian Holocaust. In every story of indigenous genocide and oppression, no matter how enslaved, enshackled or beaten, we are, and we find a way to survive and rescue others.Yes, we also have heroes, that surface in THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK PO Box 8325, Columbia, SC 29202 • 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia 29201. Our offices are under renovation. We can’t wait for a post-pandemic grand opening. 803.808.3384 • network@scpronet.com. MISSION. The purpose of the SC Progressive Network Education Fund is to promote — through education and action — human, civil, and workers ABOUT – SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK The South Carolina Progressive Network is a coalition of organizations and individual activists from across the state who have joined forces to promote social and economic justice in the Palmetto State. Launched in 1996, the Network was created to engage South Carolinians in MODJESKA SIMKINS SCHOOL The Modjeska Simkins School was launched in 2015 to teach South Carolinians the history of their state that is often glossed over or left out of our school textbooks. CLASS SCHEDULE
Concludes with showing of an SCETV documentary on Modjeska Simkins. Class 1 – March 15. In the beginning – 1800: Early habitation through Native presence, the Barbadian influence on a slave economy, SC’s early constitution, and the US Constitution of 1787. Class 2 – March 22. 1800-1894: The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1850.
CLASS 1: IN THE BEGINNING Dr. Will Goins, United Tribes of SC, gave a brief history of South Carolina’s earliest people at the Modjeska Simkins School in March 2017. Dr. Goins died on Nov. 11, 2017, after a life dedicated to education and service. Read his obituary. CLASS 6: 1970-1995
The Natural Guard was founded at GROW to lead regional anti-nuclear organizing and serve as the field outside the gates of the Bomb Plant. A small village was established complete with alternative energy, a helicopter pad for the media and a giant stage. In spring of 1979, without telling anyone that Jackson Browne would be performing, they held a rally of more than 5,000 people. SHUT UP AND SKATE
Shut Up and Skate! BY ALEX TODOROVIC. Get out with your skateboard-flipping sissy street style; Bieringville is for old-school skaters who hunger for vertiginous heights. These guys follow the waning sun to a place on James Island every day to sacrifice their bodies at the altar of the Vertical Rush. The art of vert skating is as much knowing
GHOSTS OF EDGEFIELD COUNTY Stay long enough and you will understand the real Edgefield County, sprawling along the Georgia border like some great sick beast sullen and brooding, uneasy, malevolent, the stench of its old segregated systems buzzing its blacktop highways like hot flies on the rotting veins of a dying regime, the clay ground so dank and red it seems as if it was oozing up blood from the bodies of the BY WILL MOREAU GOINS PH.D. for this publication about South Carolina and the American Indian Holocaust. In every story of indigenous genocide and oppression, no matter how enslaved, enshackled or beaten, we are, and we find a way to survive and rescue others.Yes, we also have heroes, that surface in THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native CLASS SCHEDULE
Concludes with showing of an SCETV documentary on Modjeska Simkins. Class 1 – March 15. In the beginning – 1800: Early habitation through Native presence, the Barbadian influence on a slave economy, SC’s early constitution, and the US Constitution of 1787. Class 2 – March 22. 1800-1894: The Nullification Crisis and the Compromise of 1850.
CLASS 6, 1968-1978
The Southern Strategy, born-again Republicans organize, and modern liberation movements. Harry Dent and Lee Atwater. From 1965 to 1968, Harry Dent was chairman of the S.C. Republican Party.Along with Clarke Reed of Mississippi and Howard “Bo” Callaway of Georgia, Dent is considered one of the architects of the Southern Strategy.The elder Dent worked for Strom Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, and CLASS 5: 1955-1968
Desegregation, Sarah Mae Flemming, Septima Clark, Vietnam War student protests “With all deliberate speed?” In a second ruling on Brown, in May 1955, the US Supreme Court stated that desegregation must take place “with all deliberate speed.” After South Carolina lawmakers delayed any integration of its public schools until 1963, federal court orders targeted SC schools that were MMS SPRING CLASS
Blog Post Image: MMS spring class. Published July 25, 2019 at 792 × 348 in MMS spring class. Previous 2021 CLASS RECORDINGS Guests: Mandy Carter, Kevin Alexander Gray, Harriet Hancock, and Robert-John Hinojosa CLASS 4: 1946-1954
Judge Waites Waring • Southern Negro Youth Congress • Briggs v. Elliott • Student activism Separate and Unequal. The late 1940s saw the groundwork laid in Clarendon County for Briggs v.Elliott, a case that would have significant national implications when heard by the Supreme Court in the early 1950s with five other cases that came to be known as Brown v.
INSIDE THE MONKEY FARM Among Bionetics' corporate satellites is LABS of Virginia, Inc., which operates three primate research and breeding centers in South Carolina—one in Yemassee, another six miles away in Early Branch, and a third on Morgan Island, some 400 wild acres in the St. Helena Sound where the company maintains colonies of rhesus macaques. GHOSTS OF EDGEFIELD COUNTY Stay long enough and you will understand the real Edgefield County, sprawling along the Georgia border like some great sick beast sullen and brooding, uneasy, malevolent, the stench of its old segregated systems buzzing its blacktop highways like hot flies on the rotting veins of a dying regime, the clay ground so dank and red it seems as if it was oozing up blood from the bodies of the THE LADY OF COFITACHEQUI The Lady of Cofitachequi Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners CHRISTINA SNYDER On May 1, 1540, Hernando de Soto and his army approached the first major town of Cofitachequi, one of the South's wealthiest and most storied Native SARAH LEVERETTE
Sarah Leverette 6 “In all likelihood, Sarah Leverette has had more influence over twentieth century legal writing in South Carolina than any other person,” writes Ruth Cupp Skip to content
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