What we need, Septima argued, was Citizenship School. Classes for adults who couldn’t read that would teach them literacy AND how to access the polls. How to order from the Sears catalog AND how to write a letter to your congressman. The first Citizenship School, a collaboration between Septima, Myles Horton, Septima’s cousin Bernice Robinson, and Esau Jenkins, a political organizer, was set up on Johns Island, where Septima had taught so long ago.[20]
