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The Legacy of a Freedom School

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  1. Sandra E. Adickes
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction: Legacy of a Freedom School

    • Sandra E. Adickes
    Pages 1-5

  3. Movement Beginnings in Hattiesburg

    • Sandra E. Adickes
    Pages 7-21

  4. Creating Mississippi Freedom Schools

    • Sandra E. Adickes
    Pages 23-54

  5. First Weeks of a Memorable Summer

    • Sandra E. Adickes
    Pages 55-80

  6. An Eventful August

    • Sandra E. Adickes
    Pages 81-101

  7. Other Mississippi Freedom Schools

    • Sandra E. Adickes
    Pages 103-136

  8. The Aftermath of Freedom Summer

    • Sandra E. Adickes
    Pages 137-154

  9. Freedom Summer As a Life-Shaping Event

    • Sandra E. Adickes
    Pages 155-182

  10. Hattiesburg in the Present

    • Sandra E. Adickes
    Pages 183-199

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 201-218
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About this book

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 of a Freedom School, Sandra E. Adickes recalls her experiences working with the SNCC, reminding us all of the powerful Freedom Summer.

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"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 the story first-hand and enlightens us on what is still missing from our public education curriculum in and beyond Mississippi." - Constance Curry, author, activist

About the author

Sandra E. Adickes is Professor Emerita, English, Winona State University. She is the author of To Be Young Was Very Heaven (Palgrave Macmillan).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Legacy of a Freedom School

  • Authors: Sandra E. Adickes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-7935-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6427-4Published: 12 November 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7213-2Published: 12 November 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-7935-3Published: 11 November 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 218

  • Topics: History of the Americas, History of Education, US History

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