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Author Charron, Katherine Mellen, author.

Title Freedom's teacher : the life of Septima Clark / Katherine Mellen Charron
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 462 pages)
Contents 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)
Subject Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987.
SUBJECT Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 fast
Subject African American women political activists -- Southern States -- Biography
African American civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography
Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography
African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Biography
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
African American civil rights workers
African American women political activists
African American women teachers
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Education
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Race relations
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject South Carolina
Southern States
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
History
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009022449
ISBN 9780807898468
0807898465
9781469604794
1469604795