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Septima Clark meets with a group of African-American students, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, ca. 1958

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Title	Septima Clark meets with a group of African-American students, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, ca. 1958
Description	Photograph of Septima Clark, second from left, one of the teachers at the Highlander Folk School, and some of her students. Clark taught public school in South Carolina for 40 years, but in the late 1950s was fired because she refused to give up her membership in the NAACP. She became director of workshops at the Highlander Folk School, a training ground for African-Americans and other people desiring social change. One of her students was Rosa Parks, who, three months after attending Clark's class, refused to give up her seat on the bus. Through Highlander, and later through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Clark traveled throughout the South, establishing a network of Citizenship Schools for African-Americans. Teachers at the schools taught illiterate blacks how to read and write their names so they could pass literacy tests and be eligible to vote. Students also learned life skills, such as how to balance their checkbooks and read road signs, and democratic principles, including the United States Constitution, the way government works and how to vote in elections.
Subject (lcsh)	Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
Subject (naf personal name)	Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Monteagle
Geographic subject (state)	Tennessee
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1958
Photographer	.Willimetz, Emil
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1958
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
Format (aat)	photographs
Other format (imt)	image/tiff
Call number	scl-mss064-0432
Legacy record ID	scl-m0432
Part of collection	Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Photograph Collection, 1880-1986
References	[Identification of item], Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Photograph Collection, Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles
Rights	Copyright has not been assigned to the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Access conditions	Researchers may make single copies of images solely for the purpose of private study. Copies for any other purpose must be requested in writing from the director of Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research at the address or e-mail given (phone (323) 759-6063; fax (323) 759-2252). When the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research gives permission for publication, it is as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. USC may provide high-resolution images and/or prints for purposes other than private study only with written permission from the Southern California Library.
Repository name	Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Repository address	6120 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90044
Repository email	archives@socallib.org
Filename	scl-mss064-0432~1; scl-mss064-0432~2

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Other format (imt)	image/tiff
Archival file	sclcbegl_Volume23/scl-mss064-0432~1.tiff

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