Early Life and Education
Clara Virginia Clark was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She received a B.A. in sociology from Knoxville College in Tennessee in 1967 and an M.S.W. from Indiana University School of Social Work in 1969. She married married Henry Fields in 1971; they divorced in 1985.
Fields is well known for her activism during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in which she participated in a number of protests and marches, thus beginning her foray into social and political advocacy.
In 1971, she moved to New York and became a social worker. In the late 1970s and 1980s she worked in a variety of administrative positions in the social services field, while also becoming involved in community politics.
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