Class lecture with Septima Clark, July 27, 1982
Scope and Contents
The Jean-Claude Bouffard Civil Rights Interviews collection, 1982, contains oral history interviews with Septima Clark, Mary Moultrie, and Bernice Robinson as well as recordings of lectures that Septima Clark and Thomas R. Waring, Jr. gave to Bouffard's College of Charleston class in the summer of 1982. Participants discuss a wide range of topics including their family history and upbringing, their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and organizing with the Charleston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Highlander Folk School, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), African American leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael), Ralph Abernathy, and Jesse Jackson, segregation in Charleston and, more broadly, in education, and the 1969 Hospital Workers Strike.
More information about the contents of each oral history or lecture can be found within the abstract at the file-level of each recording.
Dates
- Creation: July 27, 1982
Creator
- From the Collection: Bouffard, Jean Claude (Person)
Access Restrictions
No restrictions. A cassette player will be made available to researchers in the Avery Research Center's Reading Room to listen to the audiocassettes.
Full Extent
From the Collection: .209 linear feet (1 narrow document box and 5 audiocassettes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
This is an audio recording of a lecture that Septima Clark gave to Jean Claude Bouffard's class in the summer of 1982. The recording begins with Clark already speaking.
Clark discusses her family history, her desire to be a teacher, her attendance at the Avery Normal Institute, and her organizing work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She then discusses her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement including her work with Highlander Folk School and starting the Citizenship School on Johns Island, her thoughts on what freedom means, and her arrest in Tennessee. She then begins to answer questions from the class about a wide range of topics including physical violence, specifically police violence, during the Civil Rights Movement, the role of the North, Jesse Jackson, voting, Jim Jones, and her family history.
Repository Details
Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository
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