The Freedom Schools : : Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement / / Jon Hale.
Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demons...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools
- 1. "The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom": The Origins of Education and the Ideology of Liberation in Mississippi
- 2. "There Was Something Happening": The Civil Rights Education and Politicization of the Freedom School Students
- 3. "The Student as a Force for Social Change": The Politics and Organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools
- 4. "We Will Walk in the Light of Freedom": Attending and Teaching in the Freedom Schools
- 5. "We Do Hereby Declare Independence": Educational Activism and Reconceptualizing Freedom After the Summer Campaign
- 6. Carrying Forth the Struggle: Freedom Schools and Contemporary Educational Policy
- Epilogue: Remembering the Freedom Schools Fifty Years Later
- Notes
- Index