Freedom's Teacher

Freedom's Teacher
Author: Katherine Mellen Charron
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0807898465

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 this vibrantly written biography, Katherine Charron demonstrates Clark's crucial role--and the role of many black women teachers--in making education a cornerstone of the twentieth-century freedom struggle. Using Clark's life as a lens, Charron sheds valuable new light on southern black women's activism in national, state, and judicial politics, from the Progressive Era to the civil rights movement and beyond.

Freedom's Teacher, Enhanced Ebook

Freedom's Teacher, Enhanced Ebook
Author: Katherine Mellen Charron
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0807837601

Civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) developed a citizenship education program that enabled tens of thousands of African Americans to register to vote and to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. Clark, who began her own teaching career in 1916, grounded her approach in the philosophy and practice of southern black activist educators in the decades leading up to the 1950s and 1960s, and then trained a committed cadre of grassroots black women to lead this literacy revolution in community stores, beauty shops, and churches throughout the South. In this engaging biography, Katherine Charron tells the story of Clark, from her coming of age in the South Carolina lowcountry to her activism with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the movement's heyday. The enhanced electronic version of the book draws from archives, libraries, and the author's personal collection and includes nearly 100 letters, documents, photographs, newspaper articles, and interview excerpts, embedding each in the text where it will be most meaningful. Featuring more than 60 audio clips (more than 2.5 hours total) from oral history interviews with 15 individuals, including Clark herself, the enhanced e-book redefines the idea of the "talking book." Watch the video below to see a demonstration of the enhanced ebook:

Study of Segregated Private Academies and Schools in South Carolina

Study of Segregated Private Academies and Schools in South Carolina
Author: John C. Norton
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1971
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Report (1 folder : 80 sheets) and supporting notes (ring binder) re private schools around South Carolina; includes list identifying names and locations of private schools in operation, ca. 1971; and letter, 30 Mar. 1973, from Bob Anderson of the Southern Regional Council (Atlanta, Ga.) to Hayes Mizell (Columbia, S.C.) re private schools.