[Started by Esau Jenkins and Septima Clark on Johns Island SC in 1954, the Citizenship Schools focused on teaching adults to read so they could pass the voter-registration "literacy tests." Under the innocuous cover of adult-literacy classes, the schools clandestinely taught democracy and civil rights, community leadership and organizing, practical politics, and the strategies and tactics of resistance and struggle. Initially, the program operated under the auspices of the Highlander Center, but after Tennessee authorities attempted to shut down Highlander because of its support for integration and economic justice, SCLC agreed to take the Citizenship Schools under its wing so that if Highlander was destroyed the program would still survive. See Citizenship Schools for details and history.]
| ???? | Writing A Check, undated. Unsigned (probably SCLC Citizenship Education Program) |
| ???? | Depositing Money In the Bank, undated. Unsigned (probably SCLC Citizenship Education Program) |
| 1962 | Citizenship Education Program brochure, SCLC. |
| 1962 | Citizenship Schools Class Workbook (GA) |
| ???? | Teacher training application form, SCLC Citizenship Schiools. Undated. |
| ???? | Answers to Citizenship Test on Constitution and Government. Unsigned, SCLC Citizenship Schools. For learning how to pass literacy test. Undated. 7 pages. |
| 1963 | Citizenship Education in the "Heart of the Iceberg (MS), Annell Ponder, SCLC. Undated (probably 1963) |
| 1963 | Letter to Lois Rogers re Citizenship Teacher expenses, Septima Clark, SCLC |
| 1963 | Citizenship Training Workshops, Unsigned, SCLC. Undated 1963 |
| 1963 | Certificate of Attendance, Victoria Gray. August 1963 |
| ???? | Citizenship Schools organizing materials, undated |
| 64? 65? | Citizenship Schools Class Workbook, generic, non-state-specific. Undated. |
| 1964? | Citizenship Schools Activities Ideas & Plans, SCLC. |
| 1964 | SCLC Citizenship Education Program (Mississippi), Annell Ponder. |
| 1964 | COFO Citizenship School flyer, undated 1964 |
| 1964 | Citizenship and Liberation |
| 1964 | Dear Citizenship Teacher, October 12, 1964 |
| ???? |
The Citizenship Education Program,
SCLC. (Unsigned, undated, probably from the mid-1960s) |
| 1966 | Political Workshop in Sunflower Led by Mrs. Victoria
Gray, SCLC Citizenship Educaton Report report, May 7, 1966 |
| 1967 | Letter to Secty of Commerce, Carl Farris, SCLC-CEP. July 25 1967 |
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