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A fresh examination of an underexplored aspect of the civil rights
movement–teacher activismDrawing on oral history interviews and
archival research, Schooling the Movement examines the pedagogical
activism and vital contributions of Black teachers throughout the
Black freedom struggle. By illuminating teachers' activism during
the long civil rights movement, the editors and contributors
connect the past with the present, contextualizing teachers
longstanding role as advocates for social justice. Schooling the
Movement moves beyond the prevailing understanding that activism
was defined solely by litigation and direct-action forms of
protest. The authors in this volume broaden our conceptions of what
it meant to actively take part in or contribute to the civil rights
movement.
A fresh examination of an underexplored aspect of the civil rights
movement–teacher activismDrawing on oral history interviews and
archival research, Schooling the Movement examines the pedagogical
activism and vital contributions of Black teachers throughout the
Black freedom struggle. By illuminating teachers' activism during
the long civil rights movement, the editors and contributors
connect the past with the present, contextualizing teachers
longstanding role as advocates for social justice. Schooling the
Movement moves beyond the prevailing understanding that activism
was defined solely by litigation and direct-action forms of
protest. The authors in this volume broaden our conceptions of what
it meant to actively take part in or contribute to the civil rights
movement.
The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the
Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing
primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s. But a
remarkably effective tradition of Black high school student
activism in the civil rights era has gone understudied. In 1951,
students at R. R. Moton High School in rural Virginia led a student
walkout and contacted the law firm of Hill, Martin, and Robinson in
Richmond, Virginia, to file one of the five pivotal court cases
that comprised the Brown v. Board decision. In 1960, twenty-four
Burke High School students in Charleston, South Carolina, organized
the first direct action, nonviolent protest in the city at the
downtown S. H. Kress department store. Months later in the small
town of McComb, Mississippi, an entire high school walked out in
protest of the conviction of a student who sat-in on a local
Woolworth lunch counter in 1961, guiding the agenda for the
historic Freedom Summer campaign during the summer of 1964. A New
Kind of Youth brings high school activism into greater focus,
illustrating how Black youth supported liberatory social and
political movements and inspired their elders across the South.
The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the
Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing
primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s. But a
remarkably effective tradition of Black high school student
activism in the civil rights era has gone understudied. In 1951,
students at R. R. Moton High School in rural Virginia led a student
walkout and contacted the law firm of Hill, Martin, and Robinson in
Richmond, Virginia, to file one of the five pivotal court cases
that comprised the Brown v. Board decision. In 1960, twenty-four
Burke High School students in Charleston, South Carolina, organized
the first direct action, nonviolent protest in the city at the
downtown S. H. Kress department store. Months later in the small
town of McComb, Mississippi, an entire high school walked out in
protest of the conviction of a student who sat-in on a local
Woolworth lunch counter in 1961, guiding the agenda for the
historic Freedom Summer campaign during the summer of 1964. A New
Kind of Youth brings high school activism into greater focus,
illustrating how Black youth supported liberatory social and
political movements and inspired their elders across the South.
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.
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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