Through reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and civics, participants received a progressive curriculum during a six-week summer program that was designed to prepare disenfranchised African Americans to become active political actors on their own behalf (as voters, elected officials, organizers, etc.). They were intended to counter the “sharecropper education” received by so many African Americans and poor whites. The Freedom Schools of the 1960s were first developed by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi. The Freedom Schools of the 1960s were part of a long line of efforts to liberate people from oppression using the tool of popular education, including secret schools in the 18th and 19th centuries for enslaved Africans labor schools during the early 20th century and the Citizenship Schools formed by Septima Clark and others in the 1950s. The Selma Voting Rights Struggle: 15 Key Points from Bottom-Up History and Why It Matters Today.1965 Mississippi Congressional Challenge.Dahmer: Civil rights Martyr and American Hero Mississippi Freedom Schools: A Project from the Past Suggests a Lesson for the Future.Flag An Act of Defiance for Voting Rights Activists Voting Rights Act: Beyond the Headlines.Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) Political Context.Readings: Documents-Based Lesson on the Voting Rights Act.Teaching With Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality.Freedom Song: Tactics for Transformation.Documents-Based Lesson on the Voting Rights Act.Exploring the History of Freedom Schools.Brief History of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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