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mississippi freedom summer (1964)
freedom school
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Plans to establish Freedom Schools
Acceptance letter
What to bring
Teaching guidelines
Sample curricula:
US blacks, Jews under Nazism (27 pages)
Beginnings of African history (3 pages)
Negro history (1860-1900) study questions (4 pages)
Debating guidelines Beginnings of African history (3 pages)
Negro history (1860-1900) study questions (4 pages)
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On this page I list some of the documents distributed to teachers on what Freedom School classes were about and how to approach teaching them. Elsewhere, I have narrated of my own experience.
This document seems to promote the concept of Freedom Schools before they were actually established.
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Volunteer acceptance letter.
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COFO guide to how to prepare before coming to Mississippi. I was never asked to provide materials listed here.
Guidelines to help prepare teachers
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Detailed curriculum paralleling treatment of oppression of Southern U.S. blacks with Jews under Nazism. I don't know if the curriculum discussed similarities in treatment of blacks in the legally segregated South and the legally unsegregated North.
[I don't know what happened to p. 25.]
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This looks like another class or discussion outline.
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This is apparently another Freedom School curriculum. I note with interest that the writer relies especially heavily on information from Herbert Aptheker.
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Here is a one-page project primer on debating. I don't know who wrote it; I seriously doubt that I did, but I am sure it helped me in my ignorance of what to do.
