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Author:

Charron, Katherine Mellen.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xvi, 462 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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.--Biography.
African American women teachers--South Carolina--Biography.
African Americans--History--South Carolina--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.
Southern States--History--History--20th century.
United States--History--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center for the Study of the American South

Notes:

"Published with the assistance of the Center for the Study of the American South of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0807833320 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807833322 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317929515

LCCN:

2009022449

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)