Box 1
Container
Contains 21 Results:
Resumes, Brief Outlines of Life and Accomplishments
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Collection Overview
From the Collection:
The collection contains material relating to the life and work of Septima P. Clark. The biographical papers include tributes, clippings, certificates, awards, family correspondence and transcripts of various oral history interviews in which Clark discusses her parents; husband; growing up and race relations in Charleston, SC; work with Myles and Zylphia Horton, Guy and Candie Carawan and others, such as Bernice Robinson and Esau Jenkins in such places as Highlander Folk School in Monteagle,...
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated
Biographical Tribute by Dr. Alvin P. Anderson
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Collection Overview
From the Collection:
The collection contains material relating to the life and work of Septima P. Clark. The biographical papers include tributes, clippings, certificates, awards, family correspondence and transcripts of various oral history interviews in which Clark discusses her parents; husband; growing up and race relations in Charleston, SC; work with Myles and Zylphia Horton, Guy and Candie Carawan and others, such as Bernice Robinson and Esau Jenkins in such places as Highlander Folk School in Monteagle,...
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated
Biographical Tribute by J. Herman Blake
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Collection Overview
From the Collection:
The collection contains material relating to the life and work of Septima P. Clark. The biographical papers include tributes, clippings, certificates, awards, family correspondence and transcripts of various oral history interviews in which Clark discusses her parents; husband; growing up and race relations in Charleston, SC; work with Myles and Zylphia Horton, Guy and Candie Carawan and others, such as Bernice Robinson and Esau Jenkins in such places as Highlander Folk School in Monteagle,...
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated
Biographical Tribute by W. H. Buck
Godfrey
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Collection Overview
From the Collection:
The collection contains material relating to the life and work of Septima P. Clark. The biographical papers include tributes, clippings, certificates, awards, family correspondence and transcripts of various oral history interviews in which Clark discusses her parents; husband; growing up and race relations in Charleston, SC; work with Myles and Zylphia Horton, Guy and Candie Carawan and others, such as Bernice Robinson and Esau Jenkins in such places as Highlander Folk School in Monteagle,...
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated
Reflections of Two Black Southern Women: Septima Clark and Ann Moody by Kathleen Taylor. Mimeographs of Typescripts
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Collection Overview
From the Collection:
The collection contains material relating to the life and work of Septima P. Clark. The biographical papers include tributes, clippings, certificates, awards, family correspondence and transcripts of various oral history interviews in which Clark discusses her parents; husband; growing up and race relations in Charleston, SC; work with Myles and Zylphia Horton, Guy and Candie Carawan and others, such as Bernice Robinson and Esau Jenkins in such places as Highlander Folk School in Monteagle,...
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated
Scrapbook Documenting Clark's Life Complied by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents note
Laminated clippings, photos, and photocopies of correspondence.
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated
Transcript of Interview with Clark by Judy Barton, Martin L. King, Jr. Memorial Center; Charleston, South Carolina , November 9, 1971
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of typescript with Clark's corrections. Topics discussed include her parents, teaching on John's Island, South Carolina; evolution of adult education programs; knowing Eartha Kitt in Columbia, South Carolina; early NAACP work in Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina; her work at Highlander; white Citizenship Councils, especially in Orangeburg, South Carolina; her opinions of the personality and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy; and management of Southern...
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated
Transcript of Interview with Clark by Jacquelyn Hall for Southern Oral History Program. Charleston, South Carolina , July 25 1976.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents note
Includes related correspondence. Topics include her segregated schooling in Charleston; her parents, including her father, raised on Joel Poinsett's plantation, with a mention of him possibly being on the ship Wanderer; her strict upbringing; courtship by Nerie David Clark; her religious beliefs; her despair at the death of her child; Judge and Mrs. J. Waties Waring, and their differences; NAACP in Charleston and Columbia; Edwin Harleston; Myles Horton; Rosa Parks; Stokely Carmichael;...
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated
Transcript of Interview with Clark by Eugene Walker for Southern Oral History Program; Atlanta, Georgia, 30 July 1976.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents note
Interview focuses mostly on Southern Christian Leadership Conference, its programs transferred from the Highlander Center, and Clark's estimation of SCLC staff including Dorothy Cotton, Ella Baker, James Woods; Wyatt T. Walker, Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young; and other civil rights workers such as Stokely Carmichael. She mentions government spying on activities at Highlander and its being shut down, comments on the movement's successes and failures, and testifies to Martin...
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated
Transcript of Interview with Clark by Eliot Wigginton
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents note
She discusses how her father's non-violence made her docile and accepting; how Highlander changed her and allowed her to stand up against unjust laws. There is a lengthy discussion of responsibility of teachers to educate regarding injustice. Clark discusses her work on the Charleston County School Board and relates an anecdote regarding W.E.B. DuBois, among other things.
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated