Freedom's teacher : the life of Septima Clark / Katherine Mellen Charron.

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Main Author: Charron, Katherine Mellen
Corporate Author: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center for the Study of the American South
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Clark, Septima Poinsette, > 1898-1987.
African American women political activists > Southern States > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Southern States > Biography.
Civil rights workers > Southern States > Biography.
African American women teachers > South Carolina > Biography.
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.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xvi, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.