Clark, Septima Poinsette 1898-1987

Ready from within : Septima Clark and the civil rights movement by Septima Poinsette Clark ( Book )
8 editions published between 1986 and 1990 in English and held by 571 libraries worldwide

Echo in my soul by Septima Poinsette Clark ( Book )
9 editions published between 1962 and 1978 in English and held by 400 libraries worldwide

Oral history interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 25, 1976 interview G-0016, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) by Septima Poinsette Clark ( Book )
2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide
Septima Clark was a teacher and citizen's education director for the Highlander Folk School and Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She also worked with the South Carolina Council on Human Relations, YWCA, and American Friends Service Committee. This interview covers her childhood in Charleston, SC, and her family's efforts to survive poverty and racial prejudice. Her mother was a washerwoman reared in Haiti, and her father was a former slave on the Poinsett plantation. Her first job as a teacher on John's Island (1916-19) led to her early activism with the NAACP, her friendship with Judge and Mrs. Waring, and her work with the Charleston YWCA. She married Nerie David Clark as an act of rebellion against her parents, but she chose not to remarry after his early death. She attended college in Columbia, returned to Charleston in 1947, and lobbied for the first local credit union to serve black workers. After she lost her teaching position in 1956 due to her NAACP membership, she worked for the Highlander Folk School encouraging voter registration and education. The SCLC hired her to form education programs, but her plans for increasing community involvement, protecting the labor rights of black teachers, and educating black voters were often ignored because she was female. The interview ends with her thoughts on why she started receiving more recognition for her work in the mid-1970s.

Oral history interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 30, 1976 interview G-0017, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) by Septima Poinsette Clark ( Book )
2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide
Septima Clark was hired by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to continue the voter registration and community education classes she had taught through the Highlander Folk School. She recalls some of the successes of her work with the S.C.L.C., especially the passing of the Voting Rights Act. The challenges of the work included prejudice against the female leaders in the organization, violent reactions by local police and Ku Klux Klan, and occasional class prejudice amongst SCLC leaders. Clark notes how several leaders needed to learn techniques for serving poor rural people, and she often corrected their misunderstandings. She compares the leadership strategies of Andrew Young, Wyatt T. Walker, and Ralph Abernathy and explains why the organization flourished under the influence of certain civil rights workers like Young and Jesse Jackson.

Champions of democracy by Septima Poinsette Clark ( Book )
1 edition published in 1957 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide

A Tribute to Septima Clark and Rosa Parks, May 1, 1980, Berkeley, California ( Book )
2 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide

In the Supreme Court of Tennessee : Highlander Folk School, a corporation with its situs in Grundy County, Tennessee, Myles Horton and May Justus, president and secretary of said corporation respectively, Septima Clark, a resident of Grundy County, Tennessee, and all directors and other persons having official connection with the said corporation, plaintiffs-in-error, vs. the state of Tennessee ex rel., A.F. Sloan, district attorney general of the 18th Judicial Circuit, defendant-in-error by Tenn.) Highlander Folk School (Monteagle ( Book )
1 edition published in 1961 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide

Septima P. Clark papers, ca. 1910-ca. 1990 by Septima Poinsette Clark ( )
in English and held by 1 library worldwide
The collection contains several series. Biographical papers include tributes, clippings, certificates, awards, family correspondence and transcripts of various oral history interviews in which Clark discusses her parents; husband; growing up and race relations in Charleston, S.C.; work with Myles and Zylphia Horton, Guy and Candie Carawan and others, such as Bernice Robinson and Esau Jenkins in such places as Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn. and on Johns Island, S.C.; Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; her work in Citizenship Schools; her work at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and in the Civil Rights Movement with people like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Stokely Carmichael, Dorothy Cotton, Ella Baker, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, Hosea Williams, Ralph David Abernathy and others. She often mentions the inferior way women were treated by SCLC staff and there are a few references to the Charleston, S.C. Hospital Workers' strike (1969).

What's it like being Septima Poinsett [i.e. Poinsette] Clark ( Visual )
2 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
"Dr. Septima Poinsett [sic] Clark is an educator and humanitarian. ... This program is an attempt to present an informal portrait of Dr. Clark, as she talks informally (and without rehearsing) about her childhood, her teaching career ... her work with Dr. Martin Luther King [Jr.] and her philosophy for living. Various people in the Charleston community also express admiration for Dr. Clark, and brief comments are included."--1979 Peabody Awards entry form excerpt. Dr. Clark discusses her friendship and her work with Dr. King in the civil rights movement in the South during the late 1950's and 1960's. She recounts her long teaching career which she was fired from for being a member of the NAACP and and jailed in Tennessee for teaching an integregated program. Various people of Charleston, South Carolina discuss the contributions Dr. Clark has made, not only to the people of Charleston, but to people across the country. Several of them also tell of the influence Dr. Clark has had on them personally. The program includes a variety of archival photographs of Dr. Clark's personal life and work in the civil rights movement.

Echo in my soul, by Steptima Poinsette Clark with LeGette Blythe by Septima Poinsette Clark ( Book )
1 edition published in 1962 in English and held by 1 library worldwide