The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison

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🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Everyone's heard of Martin Luther King Jr. But do you know the woman Dr. King called "the architect of the civil rights movement," Septima Clark? The teacher of some of the generation's most legendary activists -- like Rosa Parks, Diane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer and thousands more -- Clark laid out a blueprint for change-making that has stood the test of time. Now T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, the cofounders of GirlTrek, are taking a page from Clark's playbook to launch a health revolution in the US -- and to get one million women walking for justice. (This ambitious plan is a part of The Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features health activists T-Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, recorded live at TED 2018.
0:10.0	I would like to tell you about the most powerful woman you've never heard of.
0:16.4	This is Septima Clark. Remember her name Septima Clark. Dr. King called her the architect of the civil rights movement
0:24.6	because she created something called citizenship schools,
0:26.6	and in those schools, she taught ordinary women the practical skills
0:29.6	to go back into their communities and teach people to read.
0:32.6	Because if they could read, they could vote.
0:36.6	Well, these women took those organizing skills,
0:39.2	and they became some of the most legendary civil rights activists
0:42.2	this country has ever seen.
0:44.4	Women like Diane Nash.
0:46.6	You may know her.
0:48.0	She orchestrated the entire walk from Selma and Montgomery.
0:51.3	She was the co-founder of the student on violent coordinating committee,
0:54.8	and they integrated lunch counters,
0:56.6	and they created the freedom rides.
0:58.5	Or you may remember Fannie Lou Hamer,
1:00.1	who sat on the floor of the Democratic National Convention
1:03.1	and talked about being beaten in jail cells
1:06.1	as she registered people to vote in Mississippi.
1:08.8	And her most famous student, Rosa Parks.
1:11.6	She said Septima Clark was the one who taught her the peaceful act of resistance.
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