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Septima Poinsette Clark | |
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| Born | Septima Poinsette May 3, 1898 Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | December 15, 1987 (aged 89) |
| Organization(s) | NAACP SCLC |
| Movement | Civil Rights Movement |
| Spouse | Nerie David Clark |
| Awards | Martin Luther King Jr. Award 1970 Living Legacy Award 1979 Drum Major for Justice Award 1987 |
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] Septima Clark's work was commonly under-appreciated by Southern male activists.[2] She became known as the "Queen Mother" or "Grandmother" of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.[3] Martin Luther King Jr. commonly referred to Clark as "The Mother of the Movement".[2] Clark's argument for her position in the Civil Rights Movement was one that claimed "knowledge could empower marginalized groups in ways that formal legal equality couldn't."[2]
- ^ Olson, Lynne (2002). Freedom's Daughters: the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970 / by Fred Powledge. New York: Simon & Schuster.
- ^ a b c Brown-Nagin, Tomiko (2006). The Transformation of a Social Movement into Law? the SCLC and NAACP's campaigns for civil rights reconsidered in the light of the educational activism of Septima Clark. Routledge.
- ^ Women had key roles in civil rights movement