Freedom's teacher [[electronic resource] ] : the life of Septima Clark / / Katherine Mellen Charron
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| Autore: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (481 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.4092 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Southern States Race relations History 20th century |
| United States Race relations History 20th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | "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. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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's |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Freedom's teacher |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0479-5 |
| 0-8078-9846-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456371403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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