About the author
Jeanne Nienaber and a newly registered voter, July, 1966
Jeanne Nienaber Clarke is Professor Emerita of Government and Public Policy at The University of Arizona. She received her Bachelor’s (1965), Master’s (1968), and Ph.D. (1973) in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author or co-author of five books and many articles.
Clarke is the recipient of several honors and awards, including election to Phi Beta Kappa in 1965, an American Association of University Women (AAUW) dissertation fellowship in 1970, appointment as Resident Scholar to the Army Corps of Engineers’ Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors in 1973, and appointments to several National Research Council committees. She and her family divide their time between Tucson, Arizona, and West Glacier, Montana, where she is active in several non-profit organizations.
One of her most memorable experiences was participating in the American Friends Service Committee’s South Carolina Voter Education Project in 1966. Thus, she has written a personal memoir of an untold and little known chapter in the history of the civil rights movement. She thanks several of the other participants for their assistance in writing this story.
*Photo in header taken October 2012 at 405 S. Harvin Street, Sumter, South Carolina.
Clarke is the recipient of several honors and awards, including election to Phi Beta Kappa in 1965, an American Association of University Women (AAUW) dissertation fellowship in 1970, appointment as Resident Scholar to the Army Corps of Engineers’ Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors in 1973, and appointments to several National Research Council committees. She and her family divide their time between Tucson, Arizona, and West Glacier, Montana, where she is active in several non-profit organizations.
One of her most memorable experiences was participating in the American Friends Service Committee’s South Carolina Voter Education Project in 1966. Thus, she has written a personal memoir of an untold and little known chapter in the history of the civil rights movement. She thanks several of the other participants for their assistance in writing this story.
*Photo in header taken October 2012 at 405 S. Harvin Street, Sumter, South Carolina.