Editing Modjeska Monteith Simkins (section)

==Death and legacy==
Simkins died in Columbia, South Carolina on April 5, 1992, an event recognized by the South Carolina legislature.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 8, 1992 |title=A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE DEEP SORROW OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF MODJESKA MONTEITH SIMKINS, THE MATRIARCH OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN THIS STATE FOR FOUR DECADES, WHO DIED SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1992. |url=https://www.scstatehouse.gov/query.php?search=DOC&searchtext=modjeska%20simkins&category=LEGISLATION&session=109&conid=38129796&result_pos=0&keyval=1094694&numrows=10 |access-date=February 28, 2024 |website=South Carolina Legislature}}</ref> Simkins was interred at the Palmetto Cemetery in Columbia. Her portrait by [[Larry Francis Lebby]], initiated by legislation sponsored by Representative [[Alma W. Byrd]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 12, 1995 |title=H*3988 Resolution, By A.W. Byrd |url=https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3988&session=111&summary=T&PRINT=1 |access-date=February 28, 2024 |website=South Carolina Legislature}}</ref>  hangs in the [[South Carolina State House]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Palmetto State the making of modern South Carolina|last=Bass, Jack|date=2012|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|isbn=9781611171327|location=Columbia, SC|pages=106|oclc=955640347}}</ref> Her residence was restored and placed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as the [[Modjeska Monteith Simkins House]]. The house was noted among the historic sites that made Richland County, South Carolina the municipality with the highest number of preserved sites honoring Black women in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Merchant |first=Bristow |date=March 3, 2021 |title=Richland County has more monuments to Black women than anywhere else, researcher says |url=https://www.thestate.com/news/local/article249451700.html |access-date=February 28, 2024 |work=The State Newspaper}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=March 14, 2021 |title=Meet the Black Women Behind Richland County's historic sites that honor Black women |url=https://www.thestate.com/opinion/op-ed/article249891293.html |access-date=February 28, 2024 |work=The State Newspaper}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 19, 2021 |title=Richland County Leads Charge to Celebrate Black Women |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=7M5GhmjOBig |access-date=February 28, 2024 |website=Richland County, SC}}</ref>