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Harbison Junior College

Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Southern Negro Youth Congress in Columbia

October 19, 2016 by Graham Duncan Leave a Comment
Detail of the cover of the "Souvenir Journal" issued by the Southern Negro Youth Congress for the 1946 conference held in Columbia.

Many of the sessions so moved me that tears of joy and satisfaction well-up into my eyes; at times breath became only short-winded gasps. It was great, great, great!” – Rose Mae Withers Catchings to Louis E. Burnham, November 1946, describing the recent All-Southern Youth Conference held by the Southern Negro Youth Congress in Columbia, … [Read more…]

Posted in: History, News Feed Tagged: 1946, Benedict College, Center for Civil Rights History and Research, Columbia, Communist Party USA, Esther Cooper Jackson, Harbison Junior College, History Center, John Henry McCray, Modjeska Simkins, Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights, Paul Robeson, Rose Mae Withers Catchings, SNYC, South Carolina Progressive Network, Southern Negro Youth Congress, Township Auditorium, University of South Carolina, W.E.B. DuBois