LEADER 03793nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910780837603321 005 20230721024949.0 010 $a1-4696-0479-5 010 $a0-8078-9846-5 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007802 035 $a(EBL)475170 035 $a(OCoLC)642661003 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000458235 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11283216 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458235 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10421123 035 $a(PQKB)10534385 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC475170 035 $a(OCoLC)966782437 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48674 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL475170 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10350289 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930732 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007802 100 $a20090602d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFreedom's teacher$b[electronic resource] $ethe life of Septima Clark /$fKatherine Mellen Charron 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (481 p.) 300 $a"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. 311 $a0-8078-7222-9 311 $a0-8078-3332-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aSeptima 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's 606 $aAfrican American women political activists$zSouthern States$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American civil rights workers$zSouthern States$vBiography 606 $aCivil rights workers$zSouthern States$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American women teachers$zSouth Carolina$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$xEducation$zSouth Carolina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivil rights movements$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSouthern States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican American women political activists 615 0$aAfrican American civil rights workers 615 0$aCivil rights workers 615 0$aAfrican American women teachers 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xEducation$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 676 $a323.4092 700 $aCharron$b Katherine Mellen$01479031 712 02$aUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$bCenter for the Study of the American South. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780837603321 996 $aFreedom's teacher$93694912 997 $aUNINA