Freedom's Teacher

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Freedom's Teacher is written by Katherine Mellen Charron and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807898465 (ISBN 10) and 9780807898468 (ISBN 13).

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.