Hale The Freedom Schools

Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-54182-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Jon N. Hale weaves a social history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools from the perspective of former students and teachers. Having turned their training into decades of activism, they speak on their locally organized, widely transmitted curriculum and offer key strategies for integrating the school system and politically engaging today’s youth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hale, Jon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools
1. "The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom": The Origins of Education and the Ideology of Liberation in Mississippi
2. "There Was Something Happening": The Civil Rights Education and Politicization of the Freedom School Students
3. "The Student as a Force for Social Change": The Politics and Organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools
4. "We Will Walk in the Light of Freedom": Attending and Teaching in the Freedom Schools
5. "We Do Hereby Declare Independence": Educational Activism and Reconceptualizing Freedom After the Summer Campaign
6. Carrying Forth the Struggle: Freedom Schools and Contemporary Educational Policy
Epilogue: Remembering the Freedom Schools Fifty Years Later
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jon N. Hale is an assistant professor of educational history and civil rights at the College of Charleston. He is a coauthor of To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools (2015).