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Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), born in Charleston, received her B.A. (1942) from Benedict College in South Carolina and her M.A. (1945) from Hampton Institute in Virginia. Clark began teaching in 1916 and four years later campaigned against job discrimination in the teaching profession.
The afternoon sun battled storm clouds to reach the Ashley River that Saturday, September 9, 1916. As the clock neared half past two, Septima Poinsette, her mother, and Ella Sanders, her neighbor and patron, made their way to the public wharf at the end of Tradd Street. The two older women had come to see the eighteen-year-old Septima embark on ...
Septima Poinsette Clark fue una educadora afroamericana y activista de derechos civiles. Clark desarrolló los talleres de alfabetización y ciudadanía que jugaron un papel importante en la campaña por los derechos al voto y derechos civiles para los afroamericanos en el Movimiento de Derechos Civiles.[1] El trabajo de Septima Clark fue comúnmente subestimado por los activistas masculinos ...
Septima Poinsette Clark was a nationally influential civil rights activist and educator. Due to a citywide ordinance mandating that only white teachers could work in Charleston’s public schools, Clark left Charleston after graduating from the Avery Normal Institute in 1916 to become a teacher on nearby Johns Island.
Clark, Septima. May 3, 1898. December 15, 1987. Educator and civil rights activist Septima Poinsette was born and reared in Charleston, South Carolina. Her mother, Victoria Warren Anderson, was of Haitian descent and worked as a laundress, and her father, Peter Porcher Poinsette, was a former slave who worked as a cook and a caterer.
Septima Poinsette Clark was a dynamic, real-life superhero and pioneer of citizenship education. She was a tireless voting rights advocate and champion for civil rights. She created the popular citizenship school model that taught literacy and political education to thousands of ordinary people throughout the south. Septima Poinsette Clark was ...
Abstract. Chapter 5 centers Septima Poinsette Clark’s educational activism and innovation during and long before the civil rights movement. Illustrated in her collection of published and unpublished writings is the intersection of faith, teaching, and activism.
