Septima developed the literacy and workshops that played an important role in the voting rights and civil right for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
Her position in the Civil Rights Movement was one that claimed ’ knowledge could empower marginalized groups that formal legal equality couldn’t’.
In 1979 US President Jimmy Carter awarded her a Living Legacy Award.
Martin Luther King commonly referredt o her as The Mother of the Movement.
Septima lived to the age of 89. In the eulogy, at her funeral in 1987, the Revd. Joseph Lowery asserted that her ‘courage and pioneering efforts in the area of citizenship education and interracial cooperation’ won her SCLC highest award - Drum major for Justice Award.
( SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
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