Septima Poinsette Clark

Arrest Date	Multiple arrests
Arrest Location	South Carolina and Tennessee
Charge	Fired from teaching job for NAACP membership. Organized Citizenship Schools.

Historical Record

Septima Clark lost her teaching position in South Carolina because she refused to hide her NAACP membership. She went on to found the Citizenship Schools — grassroots literacy programs that registered hundreds of thousands of Black voters across the South. Dr. King called her the “Mother of the Movement.”

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The full Good Trouble profile for Septima Poinsette Clark — including sourced archival photography, expanded biographical history, and complete arrest record — is in development. This page will be updated as the archive grows.

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