Dear Friends,
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Freedom Summer and in the hopes of contributing to the development of the next social justice movement, we have launched a website featuring the original documents of the 1964 Freedom School Curriculum.
Please visit the site at Freedom School Curriculum.
We also hope you will forward this link to any colleagues or friends you believe would be interested in this information.
This site contains the documents that made up the original FSC as well as supportive source material. We have translated these documents into html and plan to include a PDF version at a later stage for downloading at no charge. Also provided is an introduction giving a brief historical context to the Freedom Schools with a list of recommended resources for further research and study as well as sample lessons. We hope that these documents and resources are useful to students, researchers, teachers, and activists.
Our purpose is to encourage the understanding of the principles, ideas and strategies of the Freedom Schools in their historical context. We are hoping that by making the quintessential example of a progressive, experiential curriculum freely available on the web, people will be inspired to renew the struggle for social justice in creative ways today.
We would like to ask the members of this SNCC list, or anyone who was involved in Freedom Summer, to give us feedback on this website (which is still a work in progress.) We have not been able to ascertain authorship for all of the parts of the curriculum. Please contact us if you have any information.
Our goal is to assemble the complete curriculum, but as you can see on the website, we are missing some of the documents (Recreational and Artistic Curriculum; South as an Underdeveloped Area; Chester, PA; Cambridge, MD; NYC School Crisis; Power of the Dixiecrats (long version); some pages in "Voter Registration Laws in Mississippi"). We would appreciate any help in locating these documents.
Kathy Emery, Sylvia Braselmann, and Linda Gold
June 17, 2004.
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