Tread a Troubled Path to Equality

Like in most Southern states, the path to social justice and equality in South Carolina was a struggle: Segregation, Jim Crow laws, voter discrimination and racial violence were not easily overcome. Columbia in particular was home to several pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement. These events are remembered and preserved through sites in Columbia, including the South Carolina State House and the Modjeska Monteith Simkins House.

Columbia

Things to See and Do

Modjeska Monteith Simkins House

Home to a matriarch of the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina, the house is available for scheduled group visits and meetings.
South Carolina State House

Protestors marched onto the grounds of the State House in 1961 to oppose segregation. Today, a monument commemorating the history of African-Americans in South Carolina, including their struggle for civil rights, stands on these same grounds.