Septima Poinsette Clark
type: Person
description: Charleston-born teacher whose Citizenship Schools taught hundreds of thousands of Black Americans to read so they could pass voter-literacy tests. The civil rights movement called her Queen Mother.
birth date: 1898
death date: 1987
birth place: Charleston, South Carolina, United States
death place: Charleston, South Carolina, United States
nationality: American
job title: Educator and civil rights organizer