Oral history interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 30, 1976
interview G-0017, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
by Septima Poinsette Clark
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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.
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Oral history interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 30, 1976: interview G-0017, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
2006, University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Title from menu page (viewed on May 22, 2007).
Interview participants: Septima Poinsette Clark, interviewee, Eugene Walker, interviewer
Duration: 01:26:08
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files : ca. 141.3 kilobytes, 157.7 megabytes.
Original version: Southern Oral History Program collection, (#4007), Series G, Southern women, interview G-0017, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 40 p.
Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
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