Septima Poinsette Clark is popularly known as the Grandmother of the American Civil Rights Movement. During her days, Septima remained a civil rights activities and an educator.

Septima played an important role in the voting rights of African-Americans. Clark worked with the NAACP in 1920 while operating as an educator. The job helps Septima to gather petitions enabling black people to serve as principal workers in Charleston schools.

These agitations brought into existence the first black principal working in Charleston.

To teach literacy to black adults, Septima Poinsette Clark did everything within her best for this movement. Septima Poinsette Clark was awarded a Living Legacy Award in the year 1979 by President Jimmy Carter.

Septima has won several other awards in her autobiography, making her the real Grandmother of the American Civil Rights Movement. Clark has been noted as a great figure that the black community will not forget now and later in the future.