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Pension Granted to Charleston Teacher After NAACP Firing
Septina Clark, 78, of Charleston, receives a state pension twenty years after being fired for NAACP membership in 1956. Gov Edwards informs her she was unjustly forced to resign, with the first $3,600 installment seen as a step toward permanent funding next year. Clark, who taught from 1916, reflects on civil rights work with nonviolence and education as the path to progress, and continues community involvement with League of Women Voters and funding for a student at Charleston Baptist College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Cothran
Associated Press
Charleston
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
South Carolina
Septina Clark
Clark
James B Edwards
Joseph R Murray
Charleston Murray
Highlander Folk School
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Baptist College