The Life of Septima Clark
by
Katherine Mellen Charron
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
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...