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Charron Katherine Mellen |
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Titolo |
Freedom's teacher [[electronic resource] ] : the life of Septima Clark / / Katherine Mellen Charron |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009 |
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1-4696-0479-5 |
0-8078-9846-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (481 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African American women political activists - Southern States |
African American civil rights workers - Southern States |
Civil rights workers - Southern States |
African American women teachers - South Carolina |
African Americans - Education - South Carolina - History - 20th century |
African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History - 20th century |
Civil rights movements - Southern States - History - 20th century |
Southern States Race relations History 20th century |
United States Race relations History 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Published with the assistance of the Center for the Study of the American South of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"--T.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Septima Clark's civil rights movement -- Home lessons -- Taking up the work -- Singing the blues in the new Reconstruction -- Political training grounds -- The battle transformed -- Crossing Broad -- Bridging past and future -- A fight for respect -- Similar and yet different -- Epilogue: A right to the tree of life -- Appendix: South Carolina educational statistics. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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