Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize. Finalist, Hooks National Book Award How Black women used lessons in literacy to crack the foundation of white supremacy. This book details how African American women used lessons in basic literacy to crack the foundation of white supremacy and sow seeds for collective action during the civil rights movement. Deanna Gillespie traces the history of the Citizenship Education Program (CEP), a grassroots initiative that taught people to read and write in preparation for literacy tests required for voter registration—a...