TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charron,Katherine Mellen
TI  - Freedom's Teacher: the Life of Septima Clark
SN  - 9780807898468
AV  - E185.97.59 
PY  - 2009///.]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Clark, Septima Poinsette,
KW  - African American women political activists
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Biography
KW  - African American civil rights workers
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - African American women teachers
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Education
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Race relations
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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