School In The Civil Rights Movement

Author : Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0736807993
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( 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.

Author : Jon N. Hale
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541821
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( 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.

Author : Zoë Burkholder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190605138
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( 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"--

Author : Paula Young Shelton
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
ISBN 13 : 0385376065
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( 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.

Author : Joel A. Rogers
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro written by Joel A. Rogers and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 1957 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Teri Kanefield
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1613125178
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( 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.

Author : Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1515720993
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( 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"--

Author : Tondra L. Loder-Jackson
Publisher : Suny Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438458601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( 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 2016-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of African American educators in the Birmingham civil rights movement.

Author : Tondra L. Loder-Jackson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438458614
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( 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.

Author : John Dittmer
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890965405
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement written by John Dittmer and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As its name suggests, the civil rights movement is an ongoing process, and the scholars contributing to this volume offer new geographical and temporal perspectives on this crucial American experience. As Clayborne Carson notes in the introduction, the movement involved much more than civil rights reform--it transformed African-American political and social consciousness. In this timely volume John Dittmer provides a new assessment of the effects of grass-roots activists of the movement in Mississippi from 1965 to 1968, to show what happened after the famous Freedom Summer of 1964. George C. Wright shows how African Americans in Kentucky from 1900 to 1970 faced the same racial restrictions and violence as blacks in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. W. Marvin Dulaney traces the rise and fall of the movement in Dallas from the 1930s through the 1970s while the nation's attention was focused elsewhere.