To write in the light of freedom : the newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

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To write in the light of freedom : the newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

Title remainder

the newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

Statement of responsibility

edited by William Sturkey and Jon N. Hale

Contributor

• Hale, Jon N.
• Sturkey, William

Editor

• Hale, Jon N.
• Sturkey, William

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• African American students
• African American students -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Civil rights
• African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Mississippi -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• Civil rights movements
• Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• History
• Mississippi
• Mississippi Freedom Schools
• Mississippi Freedom Schools
• Student newspapers and periodicals
• Student newspapers and periodicals -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--

Member of

• Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

323.1196/07307620904

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E185.93.M6

LC item number

T6 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies