[AAACE-NLA] Martin Luther King Day message

[Thomas Sticht]

Aaace-nla Colleagues: In recognition of Martin Luther King Day and the
Civil Rights movement of the mid 20th century, following is an abstract of
a paper I will be presenting at the International Reading Association
meeting in Reno, Nevada this May 4th. Anyone desiring an electronic copy
of the full paper can contact me at tsticht at aznet.net.
Tom Sticht



Paper to be presented at the International Reading Association meeting May
4th, 2004.

How Three Women Adult Literacy Educators
Helped Stimulate the Civil Rights Movement

Tom Sticht

Abstract
This paper traces the influence of Cora Wilson Stewart of Kentucky on the
adult literacy education practices of Wil Lou Gray of South Carolina and
Septima Poinsetta Clark, the civil rights teacher from the Highlander Folk
School in Tennessee. These three women were interconnected by their
teaching across time in the first half of the 20th century. Their
extraordinary contributions to adult literacy education helped stimulate
the emergence of voting rights and the civil rights movements that lead to
Brown vs. Board of Education in the second half of the 20th century.