Freedom's teacher : the life of Septima Clark / Katherine Mellen Charron.
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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2009]
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline Women and the Law (Peggy) |
| 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 vibrantly written biography, Katherine 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. Using Clark's life as a lens, Charron sheds valuable new light on southern black women's activism in national, state, and judicial politics, from the Progressive Era to the civil rights movement and beyond. -- Publisher's website. |
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| Item Description: | "Published with the assistance of the Center for the Study of the American South of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 462 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |