Ready From Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Right Movement, A First Person Narrative - Softcover

Brown, Cynthia Stokes

 
9780865431744: Ready From Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Right Movement, A First Person Narrative
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0865431744 ISBN 13: 9780865431744
Publisher: Africa World Press, 2020

Synopsis

Septima Clark 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 Martin Luther King, jr. from 1978 to 1983 she served as the first Black woman on the Charleston School Board. This is a first-person narrative of her life in the context of the Civil Rights Movement. Her story continues a major thread in the tapestry of the movement.

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Publisher
Africa World Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0865431744
ISBN 13 
9780865431744
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
1

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