Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1910 - 1972

Occupations

Civil rights workers

Places

Charleston (S.C.) (Other)

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Septima P. Clark papers

Collection

Identifier: AMN 1000

Abstract Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Peter Porcher Poinsette and Victoria Anderson. Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. She married Nerie Clark (1889-1925) of North Carolina, a navy cook in 1920; they had one surviving child Nerie Clark, Jr. (born 1925). Clark received her BA from Benedict College in 1942 and an MA from Hampton Institute in 1946. She taught in various schools throughout...

Dates: approximately 1910-1990

Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Filtered By

Subject: African American women teachers X
Subject: African Americans -- Civil rights X
Subject: Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 X