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May 03, 1898 Charleston, South Carolina, United States Died on 15 Dec 1987 (aged 89)
American activist
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About Septima Poinsette Clark
- Septima Poinsette Clark (May 3, 1898 – December 15, 1987) was a black 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.
- Septima Clark's work was commonly under-appreciated by Southern male activists.
- She became known as the "Queen mother" or "Grandmother" of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- commonly referred to Clark as "The Mother of the Movement".
- 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."
