
To Write in the Light of Freedom
The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
University Press of Mississippi
Published on 28. February 2015
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-1-62846-188-6 (ISBN)
Description
Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands of young African American students. Here they learned civics, politics, and history, curriculum that helped them instead of the degrading lessons supporting segregation and Jim Crow and sanctioned by White Citizen's Councils. Young people enhanced their self-esteem and gained a new outlook on the future. And at more than a dozen of these schools, students wrote, edited, printed and published their own newspapers. For more than five decades, the Mississippi Freedom Schools have served as powerful models of educational activism. Yet, little has been published that documents black Mississippi youths' responses to this profound experience.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Jackson
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 - 25 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62846-188-6 (9781628461886)
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William Sturkey | Jon N. Hale
To Write in the Light of Freedom
The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
E-Book
02/2015
University Press of Mississippi
€24.49
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Persons
William Sturkey, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work has appeared in the Journal of Mississippi History and the Journal of African American History.|Jon N. Hale, Charleston, South Carolina, is an assistant professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. His work has appeared in the Journal of African American History, History of Education Quarterly, South Carolina Historical Magazine, and Journal of Social Studies Research.