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T. Morgan Dixon: I would like to tell you

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about the most powerful woman[br]you've never heard of.

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This is Septima Clark.

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Remember her name --

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Septima Clark.

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Dr. King called her the "the architect"[br]of the civil rights movement.

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She created something[br]called citizenship schools,

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and in those schools,

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she taught ordinary women[br]the practical skills

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to go back into their communities[br]and teach people to read,

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because if they could read,

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they could vote.

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All these women took[br]those organizing skills,

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and they became some of the most[br]legendary civil rights activisits

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this country has ever seen.

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Women like Diane Nash.

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You may know her.

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She orchestrated the entire walk[br]from Selma to Montgomery.

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She was the co-founder of the student[br]non-violent coordinating committee,

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and they integrated lunch counters

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and they created the freedom rides.

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Or you may remember Fanny Lou Hamer,

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who say on the floor of the Democratic[br]National Convention,

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and talked about being[br]beaten in jail cells

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as she registered people[br]to vote in Mississippi.

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And her most famous student:

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Rosa Parks.

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She said Septima Clark was the one

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who taught her the peaceful[br]act of resistance.

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And when she sat down,

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she inspired a nation to stand.

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These were just three[br]of her 10,000 students.

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These women stood[br]on the frontlines of change,

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and by doing so,

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they taught people to read[br]in her citizenship school model

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and empowered 700,000 new voters.

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And that's not it.

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She created a new culture[br]of social activism.

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Pete Seeger said it was Septima Clark[br]who changed the lyrics

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to the old gospel song,

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and made the anthem we all know:

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"We Shall Overcome."

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Vanessa Garrison: Now