Playing an important role in the civil rights movement, Septima Poinsette Clark understood the role that education could play in a community.

♪ [snappy music] ♪ The daughter of former slaves, Septima Poinsette Clark was born in Charleston in 1898.

She became a teacher, starting her first job at a school on John's Island.

During Clark's 30 plus years of teaching experience, she learned that a community could be transformed by education.

She developed the concept of citizenship schools where African American adults could learn to read and write in order to pass the literacy test that was required for voting.

Clark also led integrated summer workshops at Highland Folk School in Tennessee.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosa Parks were among the list of speakers and attendees at the time.