 | The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century; Mississippi Freedom Schools; Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century; African American students -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century; Student moveme; 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. 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). |
