News article reporting state ban on employee being NAACP members ID: 531 | This file appears in: Allies: Crossing the Color Line with Septima Clark, 1947-1956 In 1956, the state of South Carolina, along with many other Southern states, decreed that no city, county, and state employees could keep their jobs if they were NAACP members. Septima Clark refused to disavow her membership in May 1956 and was fired, along with four other Charleston teachers. | Source: Charleston Evening post, March 13, 1956, p 1. Download Original File SourceCharleston Evening post, March 13, 1956, p 1. "News article reporting state ban on employee being NAACP members " appears in: Allies: Crossing the Color Line with Septima Clark, 1947-1956