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.
Recommended Age | Adults |
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Author | Katherine Mellen Charron |
ISBN | 0807872229 |
Publication Date | Feb 1, 2012 |
Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
Language | English |