Simkins describes how she helped to organized a boycott in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, sometime around 1956. The boycott occurred shortly after the Supreme Court handed down the Brown decision. In response to desegregation orders, the White Citizens' Council in Orangeburg had put an economic squeeze on the community's African Americans. Simkins, as state secretary of the NAACP, helped Orangeburg respond with an economic squeeze of their own. In particular, she describes how Coca Cola became a high profile target in the boycott.