Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement When she was nineteen she

When she was nineteen she fell in love with--and was engaged to--a naval officer

Sarah is forced back into the orbit of the man in their department who assaulted her

King (who also contributes a story) and the result is itself an extraordinary collection

In her latest groundbreaking book

Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement When she was nineteen sheThe acclaimed author of the "stirring, definitive, and engrossing" (NPR) The Woman's Hour returns with the story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement. In the summer of 1954, educator Septima Clark and small businessman Esau Jenkins travelled to rural Tennessee's Highlander Folk School, an interracial training center for social change founded by Myles