Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

by Elaine Weiss

The acclaimed author of the "stirring, definitive, and engrossing" (NPR) The Woman's Hour returns with an eye-opening and inspiring account of four activists--Septima Clark, Myles Horton, Esau Jenkins, and Bernice Johnson--and their work to ensure the voting rights of Black Americans.

In the summer of 1954, Esau Jenkins and Septima Clark travelled to Tennessee's Highlander Center, a rural interracial training school for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1668002698
• ISBN13: 9781668002698
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"