9781565846302

Lessons from the Mississippi Freedom Schools

Kathy Emery

ISBN 10: 1565846303 / 1-56584-630-3
ISBN 13: 9781565846302
Publisher: New Pr
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Softcover
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A landmark publishing event that makes available--for the first time--core documents of the civil rights movement. In the summer of 1964, forty-one Freedom Schools opened in non-academic settings such as church basements throughout Mississippi. The schools set out to provide African-American students with the basic literacy and citizenship skills they would need to organize for action and become a formidable voice of the civil rights movement. Available for the first time to a wide readership, Lessons from the Mississippi Freedom Schools presents the primary source documents and entire printed curriculum used in these schools. Lessons from the Mississippi Freedom Schools also offers a broader history of the movement leading up to and influenced by the schools. Educators Kathy Emery and Linda Gold set the primary source material in historical context, providing background on related labor movements, the origins of civil disobedience, and the development of organizations such as SNCC, SCLC, CORE, and the NAACP, as well as photographs and interviews with key civil rights figures and the personal stories and case studies of leaders and ordinary citizens. A testament to the crucial role that the freedom schools played in the civil rights movement, Lessons from the Mississippi Freedom Schools is a must-read for anyone who cares about past--and continuing--struggles for social justice and what education means for democratic citizenship today.