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   Septima Poinsette Clark (May 3, 1898 – December 15, 1987) was an African American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. [1]

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   Apr 2, 2014 · Septima Poinsette Clark was a teacher and civil rights activist whose citizenship schools helped enfranchise and empower African Americans.

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   Apr 30, 2024 · Septima Poinsette Clark was an American educator and civil rights activist. Her own experience of racial discrimination fueled her pursuit of racial equality and her commitment to strengthen the African American community through literacy and citizenship.

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   Learn about the life and legacy of Septima Clark, a pioneer in grassroots citizenship education and the "Mother of the Movement". She taught literacy, rights and democracy to black people in the South and worked with SCLC and King.

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   Feb 6, 2008 · Learn about the life and achievements of Septima Poinsette Clark, a pioneer in educating African Americans for full citizenship rights. She taught in segregated schools, joined the NAACP, founded citizenship schools, and worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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   Feb 16, 2016 · If you answered “Rosa Parks,” you’re wrong—a woman named Septima Poinsette Clark earned that moniker for her pioneering civil rights work years before Parks made her fateful ride. The daughter of...

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   Who was Septima Poinsette Clark?

   • Septima Poinsette Clark (May 3, 1898 – December 15, 1987) was an African American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.

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   Who interviewed Septima Poinsette Clark?

   • Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, 30 July 1976. G-0017, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Robnett, Belinda. How Long? How Long? (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997).

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   Who was Septima Poinsette?

   • Septima Poinsette was the second of eight children. In 1916 she finished 12th grade and, unable financially to attend Fisk University as her teachers had hoped and, as an African American, forbidden to teach in the Charleston public schools at that time, Poinsette took the state examination that would permit her to teach in rural areas.

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   When did Septima Poinsette marry Nerie Clark?

   • The same year that the law was passed (1920), Septima Poinsette married Nerie Clark, a navy cook. The marriage ended five years later when Nerie Clark died of kidney failure. Clark returned to teaching on Johns Island until 1927, when she moved to Columbia, South Carolina.

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   When did Septima Clark die?

   • U.S. President Jimmy Carter awarded Clark a Living Legacy Award in 1979. In 1987, her second autobiography, Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement (Wild Trees Press, 1986) won the American Book Award. Septima P. Clark died December 15, 1987.

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   Why did Septima Poinsette leave Johns Island?

   • She left Johns Island in 1919 in order to teach and to campaign for a law allowing Black teachers in the Charleston public schools. The same year that the law was passed (1920), Septima Poinsette married Nerie Clark, a navy cook. The marriage ended five years later when Nerie Clark died of kidney failure.

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10. daily.jstor.org › how-septima-clark-spoke-up-forHow Septima Poinsette Clark Spoke Up for Civil Rights

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    Feb 10, 2016 · Learn how Septima Clark, the daughter of a slave, became a teacher and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She taught literacy, citizenship, and resistance to oppression through her persuasive speaking ability and Citizenship Schools.