The complex story of a dynamic educator, Dr. Charlie
Mae Knight, a woman and an African American, is
interwoven with the Civil Rights Movement, womens
history, and the foundations of educating children of
color and children of poverty in the United States.
Dr Knights own impoverished childhood forged her
determination to use education to escape the poverty
and racism of the Deep South of the U.S. at mid-20th
Century. She quickly learned that while she obtained
an education, it was still limited in too many
communities by the politics of poverty and
racism--even in the West. Using her...