My thoughts have been fixed on slavery and the plight of our dark-skinned brothers and sisters since the visit to Ft. Sumter yesterday.
“The greatest evil in our country today is not racism, but ignorance. I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than to believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.”
Septima Clark-1975
Septima Poinsette Clark (May 3, 1898 – December 15, 1987) was an American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.[1] Septima Clark’s work was commonly under appreciated by Southern male activists.[2] She became known as the “Queen mother” or “Grandmother” of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.[3] Martin Luther King, Jr. commonly referred to Clark as “The Mother of the Movement”.[2] Clark’s argument for her position in the Civil Rights Movement was one that claimed “knowledge could empower marginalized groups in ways that formal legal equality couldn’t.”[2- from Wikipedia