Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark
by Katherine Mellen Charron
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Septima Poinsette Clark's gift to the civil rights movement was education. In the mid-1950s, this 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. This vibrantly written biography places Clark (1898-1987) in a long tradition of southern African American activist educators, women who spent their lives show more teaching citizenship by helping people to help themselves. Freedom's Teacher traces Clark's show lessTags
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- 323.4092 — Society, government, & culture Political science Civil Rights & Liberties/ Human Rights The state and the individual Biography And History Biography
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