![]() ![]() Hale's groundbreaking examination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's tireless efforts to provide free educational opportunities for Mississippi's African American children is an often overlooked yet instrumental component of the Mississippi Freedom Summer. ![]() Sonya Ramsey, author of Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville: It provides a very realistic view of Freedom Schools with great detail and precision and astutely illustrates the significant role of education in the civil rights movement. Hale's impressive study will make a major contribution to civil rights historiography. The narrative reads smoothly and leaves the reader with a greater sense of the hopes, desires, and goals of the movement. Hale's well-documented chronicle sharply reminds readers that there are still miles to go in obliterating racism, and that there are still stories to be told. ![]()
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