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

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Bibliographic Details
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.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2016 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2016 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2016 (EBSCO)
eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost): 2016 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2016 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Format: Electronic eBook
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.