The freedom schools : student activists in the Mississippi civil rights movement / Jon N. Hale.

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"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 demon...

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Main Author: Hale, Jon N. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Mississippi Freedom Schools.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African American students > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Student movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Political activists > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Education > Political aspects > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
African American students.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Education > Political aspects.
Political activists.
Race relations.
Student movements.
Mississippi.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 300 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools
  • "The pathway from slavery to freedom" : the origins of education and the ideology of liberation in Mississippi
  • "There was something happening" : the civil rights education and politicization of the freedom school students
  • "The student as a force for social change" : the politics and organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools
  • "We will walk in the light of freedom" : attending and teaching in the freedom schools
  • "We do hereby declare independence" : educational activism and reconceptualizing freedom after the summer campaign
  • Carrying forth the struggle : freedom schools and contemporary educational policy
  • Epilogue: Remembering the freedom schools fifty years later.