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To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)

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Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write within 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 crucial 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 as a substitute of the degrading lessons supporting segregation and Jim Crow and sanctioned by White Citizen’s Councils. Young other folks enhanced their self-esteem and gained a new outlook at the future. And at more than a dozen of these schools, students wrote, edited, printed and published their very own newspapers. For more than five decades, the Mississippi Freedom Schools have served as powerful models of instructional activism. Yet, little has been published that documents black Mississippi youths’ responses to this profound revel in.

Five decades within the making, this powerful choice of essays rescues the words, hopes, and dreams of the ones young freedom fighters as they rejected Jim Crow and set on toward a path of intellectual freedom.

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