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At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor
children of color are imposed from the outside-national standards,
high-stakes tests, charismatic individual saviors-the acclaimed
Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of
school reform based in the power of communities. Begun in 1982, the
Algebra Project is transforming math education in twenty-five
cities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a
prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works
with entire communities-parents, teachers, and especially
students-to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial
stepping-stone to college math and opportunity.
Telling the story of this remarkable program, Robert Moses draws on
lessons from the 1960s Southern voter registration he famously
helped organize: 'Everyone said sharecroppers didn't want to vote.
It wasn't until we got them demanding to vote that we got
attention. Today, when kids are falling wholesale through the
cracks, people say they don't want to learn. We have to get the
kids themselves to demand what everyone says they don't want.'
We see the Algebra Project organizing community by community. Older
kids serve as coaches for younger students and build a
self-sustained tradition of leadership. Teachers use innovative
techniques. And we see the remarkable success stories of schools
like the predominately poor Hart School in Bessemer, Alabama, which
outscored the city's middle-class flagship school in just three
years.
"Radical Equations" provides a model for anyone looking for a
community-based solution to the problems of our disadvantaged
schools.
Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus
boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol.
"Just for self-defense," King assured him. It was not the only
weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered
the reverend’s Montgomery, Alabama, home as "an arsenal." Like
King, many ostensibly "nonviolent" civil rights activists embraced
their constitutional right to self-protection—yet this crucial
dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long
ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed,
Charles E. Cobb Jr. recovers this history, describing the vital
role that armed self-defense has played in the survival and
liberation of black communities. Â Drawing on his experiences
in the civil rights movement and giving voice to its participants,
Cobb lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the nonviolent
civil rights struggle and the long history and importance of
African Americans taking up arms to defend themselves against white
supremacist violence.  Â
This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights
Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil
Rights Movement through the work of nine photographers who
participated in the movement as activists with SNCC, SCLC, and
CORE. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, who covered
breaking news events, these photographers lived within the
movement—primarily within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) framework—and documented its activities by
focusing on the student activists and local people who together
made it happen. The core of the book is a selection of 150
black-and-white photographs, representing the work of photographers
Bob Adelman, George Ballis, Bob Fitch, Bob Fletcher, Matt Herron,
David Prince, Herbert Randall, Maria Varela, and Tamio Wakayama.
Images are grouped around four movement themes and convey SNCC's
organizing strategies, resolve in the face of violence, impact on
local and national politics, and influence on the nation's
consciousness. The photographs and texts of This Light of Ours
remind us that the movement was a battleground, that the battle was
successfully fought by thousands of "ordinary" Americans among whom
were the nation's courageous youth, and that the movement's moral
vision and impact continue to shape our lives.
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