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The Freedom Schools

Author : Jon N. Hale
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541821
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Freedom Schools written by Jon N. Hale and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates, had a crucial role in the civil rights movement and a major impact on the development of progressive education throughout the nation. Designed and run by African American and white educators and activists, the Freedom Schools counteracted segregationist policies that inhibited opportunities for black youth. Providing high-quality, progressive education that addressed issues of social justice, the schools prepared African American students to fight for freedom on all fronts. Forming a political network, the Freedom Schools taught students how, when, and where to engage politically, shaping activists who trained others to challenge inequality. Based on dozens of first-time interviews with former Freedom School students and teachers and on rich archival materials, this remarkable social history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools is told from the perspective of those frequently left out of civil rights narratives that focus on national leadership or college protestors. Hale reveals the role that school-age students played in the civil rights movement and the crucial contribution made by grassroots activists on the local level. He also examines the challenges confronted by Freedom School activists and teachers, such as intimidation by racist Mississippians and race relations between blacks and whites within the schools. In tracing the stories of Freedom School students into adulthood, this book reveals the ways in which these individuals turned training into decades of activism. Former students and teachers speak eloquently about the principles that informed their practice and the influence that the Freedom School curriculum has had on education. They also offer key strategies for further integrating the American school system and politically engaging today's youth.

Schoolhouse Activists

Author : Tondra L. Loder-Jackson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438458622
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Schoolhouse Activists written by Tondra L. Loder-Jackson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schoolhouse Activists examines the role that African American educators played in the Birmingham, Alabama, civil rights movement from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on multiple perspectives from education, history, and sociology, Tondra L. Loder-Jackson revisits longstanding debates about whether these educators were friends or foes of the civil rights movement. She also uses Black feminist thought and the life course perspective to illuminate the unique and often clandestine brand of activism that these teachers cultivated. The book will serve as a resource for current educators and their students grappling with contemporary struggles for educational justice.

Child of the Civil Rights Movement

Author : Paula Young Shelton
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
ISBN 13 : 0385376065
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Child of the Civil Rights Movement written by Paula Young Shelton and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family—and thousands of others—in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery. Poignant, moving, and hopeful, this is an intimate look at the birth of the Civil Rights Movement.

A More Beautiful and Terrible History

Author : Jeanne Theoharis
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807075876
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A More Beautiful and Terrible History written by Jeanne Theoharis and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered the movement firmly in the past, whitewashed the forces that stood in its way, and diminished its scope. And it is used perniciously in our own times to chastise present-day movements and obscure contemporary injustice. In A More Beautiful and Terrible History award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis dissects this national myth-making, teasing apart the accepted stories to show them in a strikingly different light. We see Rosa Parks not simply as a bus lady but a lifelong criminal justice activist and radical; Martin Luther King, Jr. as not only challenging Southern sheriffs but Northern liberals, too; and Coretta Scott King not only as a “helpmate” but a lifelong economic justice and peace activist who pushed her husband’s activism in these directions. Moving from “the histories we get” to “the histories we need,” Theoharis challenges nine key aspects of the fable to reveal the diversity of people, especially women and young people, who led the movement; the work and disruption it took; the role of the media and “polite racism” in maintaining injustice; and the immense barriers and repression activists faced. Theoharis makes us reckon with the fact that far from being acceptable, passive or unified, the civil rights movement was unpopular, disruptive, and courageously persevering. Activists embraced an expansive vision of justice—which a majority of Americans opposed and which the federal government feared. By showing us the complex reality of the movement, the power of its organizing, and the beauty and scope of the vision, Theoharis proves that there was nothing natural or inevitable about the progress that occurred. A More Beautiful and Terrible History will change our historical frame, revealing the richness of our civil rights legacy, the uncomfortable mirror it holds to the nation, and the crucial work that remains to be done. Winner of the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize in Nonfiction

An African American Dilemma

Author : Zoë Burkholder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190605138
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book An African American Dilemma written by Zoë Burkholder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the black civil rights movement. Yet, school integration was not the only-or even always the dominant-civil rights strategy. At times, African Americans also fought for separate, Black-controlled schools dedicated to racial uplift, community empowerment, and self-determination. An African American Dilemma offers a social history of debates over school integration within northern Black communities from the 1840s to the present. This broad geographical and temporal focus reveals that northern Black educational activists vacillated between a preference for either school integration or separation during specific eras. Yet, as there was never a consensus, this study also highlights the chorus of dissent, debate, and counter-narratives that pushed families to consider a fuller range of educational reforms. A sweeping historical analysis that covers the entire history of public education in the North, this study complicates our understanding of school integration by highlighting the diverse perspectives of Black students, parents, teachers, and community leaders all committed to improving public education. It finds that Black school integrationists and separatists have worked together in a dynamic tension that fueled effective strategies for educational reform and the black civil rights movement. This study draws on an enormous range of archival data including the black press, school board records, social science studies, the papers of civil rights activists, and court cases"--

The Schoolhouse Gate

Author : Justin Driver
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525566961
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Schoolhouse Gate written by Justin Driver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school students, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation’s public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compulsory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer—these are but a few of the cultural anxieties dividing American society that the Supreme Court has addressed in elementary and secondary schools. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation. Justin Driver maintains that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated its responsibility for protecting students’ constitutional rights and risked transforming public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court’s decisions in recent decades would conclude that the following actions taken by educators pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporal punishment on students without any procedural protections, searching students and their possessions without probable cause in bids to uncover violations of school rules, random drug testing of students who are not suspected of wrongdoing, and suppressing student speech for the viewpoint it espouses. Taking their cue from such decisions, lower courts have upheld a wide array of dubious school actions, including degrading strip searches, repressive dress codes, draconian “zero tolerance” disciplinary policies, and severe restrictions on off-campus speech. Driver surveys this legal landscape with eloquence, highlights the gripping personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and warns that the repeated failure to honor students’ rights threatens our basic constitutional order. This magisterial book will make it impossible to view American schools—or America itself—in the same way again.

The Girl from the Tar Paper School

Author : Teri Kanefield
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1613125178
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Girl from the Tar Paper School written by Teri Kanefield and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager who used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause. In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated high school, Barbara Johns led a walkout—the first public protest of its kind demanding racial equality in the U.S.—jumpstarting the American civil rights movement. Ridiculed by the white superintendent and school board, local newspapers, and others, and even after a cross was burned on the school grounds, Barbara and her classmates held firm and did not give up. Her school’s case went all the way to the Supreme Court and helped end segregation as part of Brown v. Board of Education. Barbara Johns grew up to become a librarian in the Philadelphia school system. The Girl from the Tar Paper School mixes biography with social history and is illustrated with family photos, images of the school and town, and archival documents from classmates and local and national news media. The book includes a civil rights timeline, bibliography, and index.

Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement

Author : Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299321908
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement written by Hasan Kwame Jeffries and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

School in the Civil Rights Movement

Author : Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1515720993
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book School in the Civil Rights Movement written by Rachel A. Koestler-Grack and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the history of the Civil Rights movement and the social life of children during this time"--

What Is the Civil Rights Movement?

Author : Sherri L. Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524792306
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book What Is the Civil Rights Movement? written by Sherri L. Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history. Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change. Author Sherri L. Smith brings to life momentous events through the words and stories of people who were on the frontlines of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This book also features the fun black-and-white illustrations and engaging 16-page photo insert that readers have come love about the What Was? series!

Students on Strike

Author : John A. Stokes
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426301537
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Students on Strike written by John A. Stokes and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at growing up African American in the oppressive conditions of the South and attending segregated schools.

Silver Rights

Author : Constance Curry
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616205598
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Silver Rights written by Constance Curry and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN GIVE OUR CHILDREN IS AN EDUCATION.” —Mae Bertha Carter In 1965, the Carters, an African American sharecropping family with thirteen children, took public officials at their word when they were offered “Freedom of Choice” to send their children to any school they wished, and so began their unforeseen struggle to desegregate the schools of Sunflower County, Mississippi. In this true account from the front lines of the civil rights movement, four generations of the Carter family speak to author and civil rights activist Constance Curry, who lived this story alongside the family—a story of clear-eyed determination, extraordinary grit, and sweet triumph. “Dignity . . . is a quality displayed in abundance by the heroes of this tale . . . Mae Bertha cut a path for her children. Now it is their turn, and their children's turn.” —The New York Times “Alternately inspiring and mortifying, frightening and enraging . . . Silver Rights is a sure-to-be-classic account of 1960s desegregation.” —Los Angeles Times “A ‘case study’ of moral leadership . . . [An] instructive, even revelatory book.” —Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis “The book has an immediacy, intimacy and emotional truth that history rarely reveals. It also unfolds with a simplicity of words and facts that make the Carters' courage, faith and love a reality any reader can share.” —Smithsonian “A solid contribution to the literature of recent American political history.” —Kirkus Reviews “Silver Rights is pure gold . . . Connie Curry shines a light on the civil rights movement’s unknown makers . . . A must-read.” —Julian Bond A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION

To Write in the Light of Freedom

Author : William Sturkey
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626743991
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book To Write in the Light of Freedom written by William Sturkey and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Schoolhouse Activists

Author : Tondra L. Loder-Jackson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438458614
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Schoolhouse Activists written by Tondra L. Loder-Jackson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of African American educators in the Birmingham civil rights movement. Schoolhouse Activists examines the role that African American educators played in the Birmingham, Alabama, civil rights movement from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on multiple perspectives from education, history, and sociology, Tondra L. Loder-Jackson revisits longstanding debates about whether these educators were friends or foes of the civil rights movement. She also uses Black feminist thought and the life course perspective to illuminate the unique and often clandestine brand of activism that these teachers cultivated. The book will serve as a resource for current educators and their students grappling with contemporary struggles for educational justice.

Going to School During the Civil Rights Movement

Author : Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0736807993
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Going to School During the Civil Rights Movement written by Rachel A. Koestler-Grack and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the social life of children during the Civil Rights movement and details the conflicts of segregation and integration.

Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement

Author : Michael J. Klarman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190294582
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement written by Michael J. Klarman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005. Now, in this marvelously abridged, paperback edition, Michael J. Klarman has compressed his acclaimed study into tight focus around one major case--Brown v. Board of Education--making the path-breaking arguments of his original work accessible to a broader audience of general readers and students. In this revised and condensed edition, Klarman illuminates the impact of the momentous Brown v. Board of Education ruling. He offers a richer, more complex understanding of this pivotal decision, going behind the scenes to examine the justices' deliberations and reconstruct why they found the case so difficult to decide. He recaps his famous backlash thesis, arguing that Brown was more important for mobilizing southern white opposition to change than for encouraging civil rights protest, and that it was only the resulting violence that transformed northern opinion and led to the landmark legislation of the 1960s. Klarman also sheds light on broader questions such as how judges decide cases; how much they are influenced by legal, political, and personal considerations; the relationship between Supreme Court decisions and social change; and finally, how much Court decisions simply reflect societal values and how much they shape those values. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the most important decisions in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Klarman's brilliant analysis of this landmark case illuminates the course of American race relations as it highlights the relationship between law and social reform. Acclaim for From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: "A major achievement. It bestows upon its fortunate readers prodigious research, nuanced judgment, and intellectual independence." --Randall Kennedy, The New Republic "Magisterial." --The New York Review of Books "A sweeping, erudite, and powerfully argued book...unfailingly interesting." --Wilson Quarterly

Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement

Author : Julie Buckner Armstrong
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415932578
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement written by Julie Buckner Armstrong and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past fifteen years have seen renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the struggles into our homes and classrooms once again. New evidence in older criminal cases demands that the judicial system reconsider the accuracy of investigations and legal decisions. Racial profiling, affirmative action, voting districting, and school voucher programs keep civil rights on the front burner in the political arena. In light of this, there are very few resources for teaching the civil rights at the university level. This timely and invaluable book fills this gap. This book offers perspectives on presenting the movement in different classroom contexts; strategies to make the movement come alive for students; and issues highlighting topics that students will find appealing. Including sample syllabi and detailed descriptions from courses that prove effective, this work will be useful for all instructors, both college and upper level high school, for courses in history, education, race, sociology, literature and political science.