To Write in the Light of Freedom
eBook - ePub

To Write in the Light of Freedom

The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

To Write in the Light of Freedom

The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access To Write in the Light of Freedom by William Sturkey,Jon N. Hale in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politica e relazioni internazionali & Diritti civili in politica. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Benton County Freedom Train
  9. Drew Freedom Fighter
  10. The Freedom Carrier (Greenwood, MS)
  11. Hattiesburg Freedom Press
  12. Student Voice of True Light (Hattiesburg, MS)
  13. The Freedom News (Holly Springs, MS)
  14. Freedom’s Journal (McComb, MS)
  15. Freedom Star (Meridian, MS)
  16. Freedom News (Palmer’s Crossing, MS)
  17. Ruleville Freedom Fighter
  18. Freedom Flame (Shaw, MS)
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Notes
  21. Index