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Freedom's teacher : the life of Septima Clark
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- Creator
- Katherine Mellen Charron
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 462 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0807898465, 9780807898468, 0807833320, 9780807833322, 9781469604794, 1469604795, 0807872229
- OCLC
- ocn642661003, ocn317929515, ocn966782437
- "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 (pages 427-451) and index.
- 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
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.