This workbook changed the Civil Rights Movement
Then came 1954. The SCLC undertook a massive Citizenship Workbook program designed to teach Black citizens how to become registered voters and a force in elections.
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Then came 1954. The SCLC undertook a massive Citizenship Workbook program designed to teach Black citizens how to become registered voters and a force in elections.
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summary This book details how African American women used lessons in basic literacy to crack the foundation of white supremacy and sow seeds for collective action during the civil rights movement. Deanna Gillespie traces the history of the Citizenship Education Program (CEP), a grassroots initiative that taught people to read and write in preparation for literacy tests required for voter registration—a profoundly powerful objective in the Jim Crow South. Born in 1957 as a result of discussions between community activist Esau Jenkins, schoolteacher Septima Clark, and Highlander Folk ...