Septima Poinsette Clark

Septima Poinsette Clark was an African American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Septima Clark's work was commonly under-appreciated by Southern male activists. She became known as the "Queen Mother" or "Grandmother" of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. commonly referred to Clark as "The Mother of the Movement". Clark's argument for her position in the Civil Rights Movement was one that claimed "knowledge could empower marginalized groups in ways that formal legal equality couldn't."

3 May 1898

Born on the same birth date (3 May 1898): Golda Meir

Born on the same birth day (3 May): Austin Meadows • Cecily Neville, Duchess of York • Desiigner • Domantas Sabonis • François Coty • George Gaynes • Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg • Ivan Bukavshin • Mary Cain (athlete) • Pom Klementieff • Richard D'Oyly Carte • Stu Hart • Uma Bharti

Born in the same month (May 1898): A. J. Casson • Ariel Durant • Bennett Cerf • Carl Johnson (athlete) • David Crosthwait • Kenji Mizoguchi • Konrad Henlein