Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement

Name: Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement
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ISBN: 9780865431744

ISBN-10: 0865431744

ISBN-13: 9780865431744

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Cynthia S. Brown

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Septima Clarke played one of the most essential, but little-recognized roles in the Civil Rights Movement. Born in 1898 in Charleston, South Carolina, she was a public school teacher until 1956, when she was dismissed for refusing to disavow her membership in the National Association for the advancement of Colored People. Subsequently, she worked for the Highlander Folk School, helping to set up Citizenship Schools throughout the South where Black adults could learn to read and prepare to vote. During the 1960s she worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was a close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From 1978 to 1983 she served as the first Black woman on the…

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List price: $9.95
Publisher: Africa World Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.58" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Introduction
Searching	p. 3
Finding Septima Clark	p. 6
Finding Rosa Parks	p. 13
Septima's Story
The Movement
Judge Waring	p. 23
The Turning Point	p. 30
Dismissal	p. 35
Highlander and the First Citizenship School	p. 41
Raid on Highlander	p. 55
All Over the Deep South	p. 60
Non-Violent Resistance	p. 71
The Role of Women	p. 77
The Beginning and the End
Septima's Childhood	p. 87
Teaching, Marriage, and Children	p. 103
Retirement and Contentment	p. 119
Chronology	p. 128
Note on Sources	p. 131
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