Book Talk with Author Katherine Mellen Charron on March 22nd
Join us at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 22, 2013, as Katherine Mellen Charron, author and associate professor of history at North Carolina State University discusses Freedom’s Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark.
Charron gives an exhaustive look at the life of Septima Clark, a South Carolina educator and civil rights activist. Clark was born in 1898 in Charleston to Peter Porter Poinsette, a former slave, and Victoria Anderson, a freeborn African American. In 1916, Clark graduated from Avery Institute and went on to teach on Johns Island and in public schools in Columbia, South Carolina as well as Ohio and North Carolina. As a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Clark worked to equalize teacher salaries in public schools.
Learn more about Charron’s research and many more of Septima Clark’s contributions to civil rights activism at the Richland Library on March 22, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the Bostick Auditorium. The event is being held in partnership with the University of South Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications as part of their Media & Civil Rights History Symposium. A book signing will follow.
Contact Crystal at 929-3400 for more information.
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