Freedom's Teacher The Life of Septima Clark

Name: Freedom's Teacher The Life of Septima Clark
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ISBN: 9780807872222

ISBN-10: 0807872229

ISBN-13: 9780807872222

Edition: 2012

Authors: Katherine Mellen Charron

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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 vibrantly written biography, Katherine 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. Using Clark's life as a lens, Charron sheds valuable new light on southern black women's activism in national, state, and judicial politics, from the Progressive Era to the civil rights…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English