Black and white photograph of Lucille Poinsette, Ruby Cornwell, Septima P. Clark, E. B. Burroughs at the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority testimonial dinner for Clark. 1956.
Three sorority members (sorors) in Alpha Kappa Alpha pose with Septima Clark at a banquet they held in her honor in 1956. Clark had recently been fired from her teaching job after she had refused to disavow her membership in the NAACP. Only Lucille Poinsette, Ruby Cornwell, and E. B. Burroughs were willing to pose with Clark for this photograph. Clark was hurt, but she also understood that many sorors believed that if they’d been photographed with her, “they would have lost their jobs.” | Source: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. Download Original File
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Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.
"Black and white photograph of Lucille Poinsette, Ruby Cornwell, Septima P. Clark, E. B. Burroughs at the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority testimonial dinner for Clark. 1956. " appears in: Allies: Crossing the Color Line with Septima Clark, 1947-1956
