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The Legacy Of A Freedom School
Sandra E. Adickes
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Description for The Legacy Of A Freedom School
paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; JNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 296.
In 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee decided to establish Freedom Schools as part of its Freedom Summer campaign in Mississippi. With a curriculum developed by dedicated educators, SNCC workers, and an equally dedicated staff of teachers and student volunteers, the schools provided a learning experience and teaching style that revealed to students who had known only the "stay in your place" experience of segregated education what schools should, and could, be. The achievements of the students involved in Freedom Summer lifted the expectations of students who followed them and hastened the end of segregated schools in Mississippi. In Legacy ... Read more, Sandra E. Adickes recalls her experiences working with the SNCC, reminding us all of the powerful Freedom Summer.
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In 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee decided to establish Freedom Schools as part of its Freedom Summer campaign in Mississippi. With a curriculum developed by dedicated educators, SNCC workers, and an equally dedicated staff of teachers and student volunteers, the schools provided a learning experience and teaching style that revealed to students who had known only the "stay in your place" experience of segregated education what schools should, and could, be. The achievements of the students involved in Freedom Summer lifted the expectations of students who followed them and hastened the end of segregated schools in Mississippi. In Legacy ... Read more, Sandra E. Adickes recalls her experiences working with the SNCC, reminding us all of the powerful Freedom Summer.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403972132
SKU
V9781403972132
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About Sandra E. Adickes
Sandra E. Adickes is Professor Emerita, English, Winona State University. She is the author of To Be Young Was Very Heaven (Palgrave Macmillan).
Reviews for The Legacy Of A Freedom School
"This book illuminates one of the lesser known accomplishments of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. The establishment of some 37 Freedom Schools in 20 communities enabled hundreds of young black students to learn their history and legacy and understand activism as a road to social change. The author, one of the teachers in a Hattiesburg, Miss Freedom School, tells ... Read more