Teaching for Change: How Septima Clark Led the Civil Rights Movement to Voting Justice

Monica Clark-Robinson is passionate about stories--writing them, acting them out onstage, and reading them. She believes that learning the stories of our past can help us build the story for our future. She is the author of Let the Children March, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Illustration and a Kirkus Best Book, and Standing on Her Shoulders, a Junior Library Guild Gold Choice. She lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, with her family.

Yvonne Clark-Rhines is the granddaughter of the legendary civil rights leader Septima Poinsette Clark. Raised by her beloved Mama Seppie from the age of four, she spent her early years at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, before moving to Charleston, South Carolina. As a teenager, Yvonne became an active participant in the civil rights movement, marching alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), as well as the local community in support of the Charleston Hospital strike, which demanded fair treatment for African American hospital workers. Inspired by her grandmother's legacy, Yvonne dedicated over a decade of her life to working with the SCLC.

Yvonne later spent nearly three decades as a director of marketing and compliance for Medicare Health Plans. She now resides in Georgia with her family.

From a young age, Abigail Albano-Payton has used visual art to explore the world that surrounds her. Over the years, she began to raise discussions on social and racial equity, recognition, and homelife within her work. She graduated with a BFA at Laguna College of Art + Design. She has been featured in numerous exhibitions across the United States and published in editorials such as Blanc magazine, Southwest Art magazine, and more. In her spare time, Abigail loves to create personal work in her studio with her dog, Coco, by her side. abigailalbano.com