Unknown, but Not Unimportant! Reflecting on Teachers Who Create Social Change

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https://thosewhoteach.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/10-reasons-septima-clark-was-a-badass-teacher/#comments (accessed February 2, 2016).

Andrew Young states: “If you look at the black elected officials and the people who are political leaders across the South now, it's full of people who had their first involvement in civil rights in the Citizenship Training Program” (Levine, 388). The Citizenship Schools adult education program began in 1958 under the sponsorship of Tennessee's Highlander Folk School and under leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1961. When the project ended in 1970, approximately 2,500 African Americans had taught basic literacy and political education classes for tens of thousands of their neighbors.

Education as a prerequisite of effective social change movement is echoed in contemporary practices of community organizers and the strategies of nonviolent social change developed during the civil rights movement. See http://www.thekingcenter.org/king-philosophy#sub2

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Almeda M. Wright

Almeda M. Wright is Assistant Professor of Religious Education at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut. E-mail: [email protected]