03793nam 2200745Ia 450 991078083760332120230721024949.01-4696-0479-50-8078-9846-5(CKB)2520000000007802(EBL)475170(OCoLC)642661003(SSID)ssj0000458235(PQKBManifestationID)11283216(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458235(PQKBWorkID)10421123(PQKB)10534385(MiAaPQ)EBC475170(OCoLC)966782437(MdBmJHUP)muse48674(Au-PeEL)EBL475170(CaPaEBR)ebr10350289(CaONFJC)MIL930732(EXLCZ)99252000000000780220090602d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFreedom's teacher[electronic resource] the life of Septima Clark /Katherine Mellen CharronChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20091 online resource (481 p.)"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.0-8078-7222-9 0-8078-3332-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 teaching citizenship by helping people to help themselves. Freedom's Teacher traces Clark'sAfrican American women political activistsSouthern StatesBiographyAfrican American civil rights workersSouthern StatesBiographyCivil rights workersSouthern StatesBiographyAfrican American women teachersSouth CarolinaBiographyAfrican AmericansEducationSouth CarolinaHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryCivil rights movementsSouthern StatesHistory20th centurySouthern StatesRace relationsHistory20th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsHistory20th centuryAfrican American women political activistsAfrican American civil rights workersCivil rights workersAfrican American women teachersAfrican AmericansEducationHistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryCivil rights movementsHistory323.4092Charron Katherine Mellen1479031University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Center for the Study of the American South.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780837603321Freedom's teacher3694912UNINA