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Freedom's teacher

Charron, Katherine Mellen

2009

Overview

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: Univ. of North Carolina Press,The University of North Carolina Press,University of North Carolina Press
• Subject: 1898-1987 / 20th century / African American civil rights workers / African American civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography / African American women political activists / African American women political activists -- Southern States -- Biography / African American women teachers / African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Biography / African Americans / African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century / African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century / Bildungswesen / Biographie / Biography / Civil rights / Civil rights movements / Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century / Civil rights workers / Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography / Clark, Septima Poinsette / Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 / Education / Geschichte (Histor) / History / Race relations / Rassismus / Sociology / South Carolina / Southern States / Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century / United States / United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century / Vereinigte Staaten-Südstaaten
• ISBN: 9780807833322, 0807833320, 9780807872222, 0807872229