think that everything went right. It didn't. This country was built up from women keeping their mouths shut. I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do. Autobiographies Septima Clark wrote two autobiographies during her lifetime, in which she recorded her lifelong experiences. The first, written in 1962, was named Echo In My Soul. It is a combination of her life story, as well as her work at the Highlander Folk School. The work also discussed her views concerning the Jim Crow laws and the legitimacy of the Civil Rights Movement. Clark's second autobiography, Ready from Within (1979), was an oral recollection of lifelong experiences. Footnotes References McFadden, Grace Jordan. "Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights." In Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers 1941-1965. Ed. Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), pp. 85–97, Horton, Myles. The Long Haul: An Autobiography. NY: Teachers College Press (1998), Septima Poinsette Clark and Cynthia Stokes Brown, Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative, (Red Sea Press, 1990) Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, 30 July 1976. G-0017, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Robnett, Belinda. How Long? How Long? (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997). Thomas, Rhondda R. & Ashton, Susanna, eds. "Septima Poinsette Clark (1898–1987)," In The South Carolina Roots of African American Thought. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014), pp. 237–246. Further reading External links SNCC Digital Gateway: Septima Clark, Documentary website created by the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University, telling the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee & grassroots organizing from the inside-out The Septima Poinsette Clark Foundation Biography on South Carolina African American History Online Botsch, Carol Sears. Septima Poinsette Clark University of South Carolina. August 3, 2000. Oral History Interviews with Septima Poinsette Clark , from Oral Histories of the American South SisterMentors.com Civil Rights Movement Archive Septima P. Clark Papers at Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Photographs of Septima Poinsette Clark from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections Activists for African-American civil rights 1898 births 1987 deaths Hampton University alumni 20th-century American educators African-American Methodists Nonviolence advocates People from Charleston, South