Freedom Schools
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Much More than Summer School
Close your eyes and think about the words "summer school." What comes to mind? If you picture a room full…
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Child Watch: A Mississippi Freedom Summer Pilgrimage
By Marian Wright Edelman and Julia Cass Special to the NNPA There is a photograph of a back road near Philadelphia,…
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Child Watch: Andrew Young’s Charted Life
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “None of us had any real education in social change. I was a…
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Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer—Part II
by Marsha Rose Joyner Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Freedom Summer 1964: It seems that all of…
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Child Watch: Marching Back to Mississippi
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Those of us in Mississippi last week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Freedom…
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Continuing the Work of Freedom Summer
By Hollis Watkins Special to the Afro (The Afro)—Racism is still alive and well in Mississippi and throughout this country…
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Freedom Summer—50 Years Later
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer is being commemorated this week in Mississippi and…
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Child Watch: John Lewis to Youth—Get in ‘Necessary Trouble’
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Not every speaker tells a crowd of young leaders that their job is…
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Child Watch: From Freedom Summer to Freedom Schools
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist As a brand new law school graduate in 1963 I was fortunate enough to…
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Child Watch: I Want to Make a Difference
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Doctors told Jaime Gonzalez’s parents that his birth defects were so severe he…
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