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Lessons From Freedom Summer: Ordinary People Building Extraordinary Movements Paperback – October 1, 2008

by Kathy Emery (Author), Linda Reid Gold (Author), Sylvia Braselmann (Author),

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“Can we bring teachers and students together, not through the artificial sieve of certification and examination, but on the basis of their common commitment to an exciting social goal? Can we solve the old educational problem of how to teach children crucial values, while avoiding a blanket imposition of the teacher’s ideas? People Make Movements asks the questions that get at the heart of what education should be about.”—Howard Zinn, from the introduction

“Part history text, part curriculum, part invitation to activism, when our students consider who ‘we’ are, People Make Movements will provide important insights. Every social studies or language arts teacher can benefit from this new resource.”—Bill Bigelow, editor of Rethinking Schools magazine and author of The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration

“By looking at past achievements, all the human connections made in the struggle against racism, and the possibilities ahead, the message comes across: You Are History.”—Elizabeth Martínez, editor of Letters from Mississippi

People Make Movements provides the historical context to the Freedom Schools of Mississippi in 1964. It tells the story of how the four major civil rights organizations ended up joining together in Mississippi to break the back of segregation in the South. It is a case study illustrating important elements that are crucial to the success of a social movement. It behooves social justice advocates today to know these lessons if we are to contribute to the creation of the next social movement.

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Kathy Emery has taught high school history for 16 years. She has a PhD in Educational policy from UC Davis. Kathy wrote the teaching materials for the teaching edition of Howard Zinn's People's history of the United States (New Press) and is co-author with Susan Ohanian of Why is Corporate America Bashing our public schools? Linda Reid Gold: has taught high school English for thirty years. She has published a wide variety of articles and conducted workshops dealing with the pedagogy and content of feminist, interdisciplinary and multi-cultural literacy. Her roots are in Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia. Sylvia Braselmann is a senior scientist at a small San Francisco bio-tech company. She has studied for a masters in history at SF State University and is co-founder of the San Francisco Freedom School. She is the editor of the 1964 Freedom School Curriculum on the web at www.educationanddemocracy.org Howard Zinn is the author of A People's History of the United States.

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Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: Common Courage Press (October 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1567513883
ISBN-13: 978-1567513882
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.2 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,341,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Incredible Classroom Resource

By Andrea M. Spero on October 12, 2009

As a high school history teacher for over ten years, I highly recommend this book for my fellow teachers. The primary source documents, suggested activities and thought-provoking approach to learning about Mississippi Freedom Summer are invaluable. If you want to depart for the stale, traditional textbook depiction of the Civil Rights Movement and instead inform, challenge and inspire your students- this is it! Students can learn about the freedom struggle from the words of the people who made it happen.

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Education as it should be

By K.S. on February 26, 2009

In a time when most of us have forgotten how to ask our own questions and answer our own answers, a thought-provoking book like Lessons from Freedom Summer, is an invaluable asset for ordinary people. It's the ordinary people that build movements, and that is something that has been left out of most history books. It is a necessary tool for every student and teacher as it motivates each and every one of us to keep asking those very questions that create discussion and bring about change. Power is in the people.

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