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Bookmark or Share- Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) - BlackpastClark was born the second of eight children in Charleston, South Carolina, to Peter Poinsette, a former slave, and his wife Victoria Warren Anderson, a laundress. She and her family struggled to pay for a high school education, and she graduated from Avery Normal Institute in 1916.
- Septima Poinsette Clark - BiographySeptima Poinsette Clark was a teacher and civil rights activist whose citizenship schools helped enfranchise and empower African Americans. Updated: Sep 01, 2020 4:49 PM EDT Library of Congress
- Septima Poinsette Clark - WikipediaSeptima 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 ]
- Clark, Septima Poinsette | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and ...A pioneer in grassroots citizenship education, Septima Clark was called the “Mother of the Movement” and the epitome of a “community teacher, intuitive fighter for human rights and leader of her unlettered and disillusioned people” (McFadden, “Septima Clark,” 85; King, July 1962).
- Septima Poinsette Clark | Biography, Civil Rights, Citizenship, & Facts ...Septima Poinsette Clark was a key figure in the American civil rights movement whose own experience of racial discrimination fueled her pursuit of racial equality and her commitment to strengthen the African American community through literacy and citizenship training and education.
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