Freedom's Teacher

Discover the incredible story of Septima Poinsette Clark, a former teacher who developed a groundbreaking citizenship training program in the mid-1950s. Through her program, thousands of African Americans were able to register to vote and gain concrete strategies for empowerment. Author Katherine Mellen Charron sheds valuable new light on the crucial role of Clark and other black women teachers in the twentieth-century freedom struggle, offering powerful insights into southern black women's activism in national, state, and judicial politics.