Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Septima Clark's Civil Rights Movement -- 1. Home Lessons -- 2. Taking Up the Work -- 3. Singing the Blues in the New Reconstruction -- 4. Political Training Grounds -- 5. The Battle Transformed -- 6. Crossing Broad -- 7. Bridging Past and Future -- 8. A Fight for Respect -- 9. Similar and Yet Different -- Epilogue: A Right to the Tree of Life -- Appendix: South Carolina Educational Statistics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. In this biography of Clark, Charron demonstrates Clark's crucial role--and the role of many black women teachers--in making education a cornerstone of the twentieth-century freedom struggle
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed January 30, 2018)