Freedom Schools - Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Hale, Jon N. Hale
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2016
• EAN: 9780231175685
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17568-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Mississippi, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Black & Asian Studies, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Civics and citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General