Fifty years after Freedom Summer; To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer; more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands of young African American students. Here they learned civics; politics; and history; curriculum that helped them instead of the degrading lessons supporting segregation and Jim Crow and sanctioned by White Citizen's Councils. Young people enhanced their self-esteem and gained a new outlook on the future. And at more than a dozen of these schools; students wrote; edited; printed and published their own newspapers. For more than five decades; the Mississippi Freedom Schools have served as powerful models of educational activism. Yet; little has been published that documents black Mississippi youths' responses to this profound experience.Five decades in the making; this powerful collection of essays rescues the words; hopes; and dreams of those young freedom fighters as they rejected Jim Crow and set on toward a path of intellectual freedom.
#147960 in Books 2016-07-25Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 10.30 x 1.60 x 7.20l; #File Name: 1625341997528 pages
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