Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (hint of sunning to the spine). Wild Trees Press which published this account was founded by Alice Walker and Robert Allen. Includes a chronology and notes on sources. Among those who participated in one of her workshops was Rosa Parks. citizens, and how to fill out voter registration forms. In 1956 she was fired for refusing to disavow her membership in the NAACP, and after that she worked fulltime in running workshops, first for Highlander and later for the SCLC and the American Field Service, where taught people basic literacy skills, their rights and duties as U.S. Septima Clark was born in 1898 in Charleston, South Carolina, the daughter of a former slave and a laundrywoman, and she taught for over 30 years in South Carolina. A first person narrative" by this teacher, activist and pioneer in grassroots citizenship education, whom Martin Luther King called the Mother of the Movement edited and with an introduction by Cynthia Brown. First edition - First printing, a trade paperback original.
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