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Freedom's Teacher : The Life of Septima Clark /

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...

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Autor principal: Charron, Katherine Mellen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Septima Clark's Civil Rights Movement
  • 1. Home Lessons
  • 2. Taking Up the Work
  • 3. Singing the Blues in the New Reconstruction
  • 4. Political Training Grounds
  • 5. The Battle Transformed
  • 6. Crossing Broad
  • 7. Bridging Past and Future
  • 8. A Fight for Respect
  • 9. Similar and Yet Different
  • Epilogue: A Right to the Tree of Life
  • Appendix: South Carolina Educational Statistics
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.