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Discusses the roots of the freedom struggle in the American South
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As heir to the grassroots activism of the Civil Rights Movement, the Rural Organization and Cultural Center (ROCC) is dedicated to combatting poverty and racism in Holmes County, Mississippi. ROCC developed this oral history project as part of its effort to foster pride in local history and to develop youth leadership. The authors of Minds Stayed on Freedom are eighth and ninth grade students, most from low-income households, who spent thousands of hours researching the local Movement, honing their questioning techniques, conducting interviews, transcribing tapes, editing their texts, and mastering the other tasks that went into the production of this book. Their success shows that ordinary people not only can make history, they also can best record it.
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This is the story of the Civil Rights movement as told by the grassroots workers who lived and fought for their rights in Holmes County, Mississippi in the 1960s. These local citizens were interviewed by eighth and ninth grade students of the Rural Organizing & Cultural Center. The honesty and emotion which comes through in the stories of those who struggled through this period is evident in the candidness of their responses to the questions posed. Their language is simple and starkly real. This would be an excellent addition to any YA section, as an introduction for those too young to remember the turmoil of the Civil Rights struggle. It would also be appropriate for public library collections, especially those in the South, and academic libraries, especially those offering courses in African-American history and/or African-American literature.
- Tina A. Os wald, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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