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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Freedom Schools"”.
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A History of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1954-1965
… is to provide a history of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools. The primary research questions ask why and how the Freedom Schools developed in Mississippi during a social movement for civil rights. As such, this dissertation reconstructs the story of local people working for freedom. Through …
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A Historical Perspective of the Freedom Schools: Implications for Social Change
… Crusade for Children developed a program called Freedom School to address the problem of education within the Black community. This study sought to analyze and fully understand the development of the Freedom School program from the perspective of the participants. The study used a case study …
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Educating for social change: The history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1932-1964
U of I Only Restriction set for Item 117857 on 2021-06-25T20:44:50Z with date by astein@illinois.edu.
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Educating for social change: The history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1932-1964
This thesis documents how the Freedom Schools, an historical example of radical education, developed in Mississippi in 1964 and postulates why Freedom Schools developed in their particular social, economic, and political context. My analysis begins with Myles Horton, a radical educator in Tennessee …
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"""A Voice for the Voiceless"" African American Student Engagement with Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools"
… to understand how their experiences in Freedom Schools influence their engagement in the program. Seeking to identify African American students’ motivation for engagement, the study will also pinpoint aspects of schooling that encourage and/or discourage their engagement, as well as …
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"There's no school like Freedom School!" : a qualitative exploration of the experiences and values of educators who are former Servant Leader Interns
… all students. Children's Defense Fund's (CDF) Freedom Schools use non-traditional methods with their students who are from marginalized backgrounds. This study focused on seven teachers from across the United States who were once CDF Freedom Schools participants and their experiences and values …
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Case Not Closed: Whiteness and the Rhetorical Genres of Freedom Summer
… representations of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Texts examined at length include recruitment materials, media coverage, pamphlets, and letters produced during the project, as well as retrospective representations of Freedom Summer in popular films and literature. Drawing …
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Educating for freedom: the Highlander Folk School in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954 to 1964
… coast of South Carolina. The popularity of the schools spread to neighboring islands and continued to grow. Ella Baker, acting executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, brought the program to the attention of Martin Luther King, Jr. and in 1960, when the state of …
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We Gotta Work with What We Got: School and Community Factors That Contribute to Educational Resilience Among African American Students
… cultural and educational capital enriched by freedom schools and community members (Bourdieu 1984; Sen 1999).The findings consisted of three themes that described the teacher-student encounters in relation to students’ learning at the freedom project and the local public school. The first …