The freedom schools : student activists in the Mississippi civil rights movement / Jon N. Hale.
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TextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780231541824 (e-book)
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African American students -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Student movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Political activists -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Education -- Political aspects -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- 323.1196/0730762 23
- E185.93.M6 H35 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools -- "The pathway from slavery to freedom" : the origins of education and the ideology of liberation in Mississippi -- "There was something happening" : the early education and politicization of the freedom school students -- "The student as a force for social change" : the politics and organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools -- "We will walk in the light of freedom" : attending and teaching in the freedom schools -- "I can't leave" : educational activism and reconceptualizing freedom after the summer campaign -- Carrying forth the struggle : freedom schools and contemporary educational policy -- Epilogue: Remembering the freedom schools during the contemporary civil rights movement.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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