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001 2014024113
003 DLC
005 20151009082537.0
008 140730s2015 msu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2014024113
020 $a9781628461886 (hardback)
020 $z9781628461893 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us-ms
050 00 $aE185.93.M6$bT6 2015
082 00 $a323.1196/07307620904$223
084 $aHIS036120$aSOC031000$aSOC001000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aTo write in the light of freedom :$bthe newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools /$cedited by William Sturkey and Jon N. Hale.
264 1 $aJackson :$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$c2015.
300 $a220 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
520 $a"Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands of young African American students. Here they learned civics, politics, and history, curriculum that helped them instead of the degrading lessons supporting segregation and Jim Crow and sanctioned by White Citizen's Councils. Young people enhanced their self-esteem and gained a new outlook on the future. And at more than a dozen of these schools, students wrote, edited, printed and published their own newspapers. For more than five decades, the Mississippi Freedom Schools have served as powerful models of educational activism. Yet, little has been published that documents black Mississippi youths' responses to this profound experience"--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $a"This collection contains Freedom School newspapers gathered from archives, libraries, and personal collections across America"--Introduction.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zMississippi$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zMississippi$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aCivil rights movements$zMississippi$xHistory$y20th century.
610 20 $aMississippi Freedom Schools.
650 0 $aAfrican American students$zMississippi$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aStudent newspapers and periodicals$zMississippi$xHistory$y20th century.
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aSturkey, William,$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aHale, Jon N.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tTo write in the light of freedom$dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015$z9781628461893$w(DLC) 2014030628
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers/1343/2887556/image/lgcover.9781628461886.jpg