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Desegregation has failed. Schools filled with black and brown
students have become plantations of social control. Radical
teachers and organizers in American public schools must help young
people fashion an insurgency. This innovative book, written in the
spirit of Paulo Freire, explains what such a rebellion means and
how to create it: the tools and techniques needed to build social,
cognitive, and political power.
Jay Gillen teaches English in a Baltimore public school and has
worked with the Algebra Project since 1995, building math literacy
among youth of color and youth experiencing poverty in US public
schools.
In 1961, 16-year-old Brenda Travis was a youth leader of the NAACP
branch in her hometown of McComb, Mississippi. She joined in the
early stages of voter registration, and when the Freedom Rides and
direct action reached McComb, she and two SNCC workers sat-in at
the local bus station. That led to her first arrest and jailing,
which resulted in her being expelled and leading a protest walkout
from her high school. Thrown in jail for a second time, she was
eventually released on the condition that she leave the state. Her
poignant memoir describes what gave her the courage at such a young
age to fight segregation, how the movement unfolded in Mississippi,
and what happened after she was forced to leave her family,
friends, and fellow activists. One of the civil rights workers who
befriended her in McComb was the legendary activist Bob Moses, who
contributed the Foreword to her book. A white educator and Vietnam
war hero, J. Randall O’Brien, was deeply inspired by learning
about her courage, and he contributed the Afterword.
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