Modjeska Simkins School – Know more. Do more. Be more.

Now accepting applications for spring session March 3 – June 23 online and in-person

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Teaching our true history

Truth matters. As education is under increasing pressure from those with political agendas, the curriculum offered at the Modjeska Simkins School is more critical than ever.

Powering citizen action

The school teaches more than a true history of South Carolina. It also teaches political literacy and civic responsibility.

Growing the grassroots

Graduates of the school become part of a larger community of South Carolina activists and organizers. One student at a time, the school is building an informed and engaged base.

The Modjeska Simkins School was launched in 2015 to teach South Carolinians the true history of their state. Named in honor of human rights activist Modjeska Monteith Simkins, the school offers students an experience they cannot get anywhere else.

They learn about their own roles as citizens and as potential activists. In the process, they engage in a form of participatory education that echoes the traditions of the Freedom Schools of Mississippi in the 1960s and Simkins’ own leadership training school in the 1940s.

The Spring 2025 session runs March 1–June 28 online and at GROW in Columbia.

The school is a project of the SC Progressive Network, located at GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave. in downtown Columbia, SC.

Questions? Call 803-808-3384.