Summary Of Mississippi Freedom School

Jon N. Hale is an assistant professor of educational history at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. In his immensely informative article, “The Student as a Force for social change”: The Mississippi Freedom Schools and Student Engagement, he thoroughly explains how students in the Freedom Schools during the 1960s were able to use techniques and practices to “nurture agents of social change”. This document informs the reader on how important the Freedom Schools were then and even in citizen’s lives today. His thesis, which is,
“Through the analysis of student engagement in the Mississippi Freedom Schools, it becomes clear that the schools were instrumental in forging a political consciousness among the African American youth in Mississippi who became committed to destroying the legalized oppression of Jim Crow segregation.” is supported by the accounts of actual students who experienced the pedagogy of the school’s teaching tactics and curriculum. He is able to provide proof of African American students, such as Homer Hill and Hymethia Washington, who were able to receive the opportunity to go on from the Freedom Schools
He describes the ugly that students and teachers who were involved with the schools had to endure which included putting their personal safety in danger simply just by being affiliated because these Schools were targeted aggressively by white supremacists and threatened by tactics of fear. As an example of how serious being in connection with Freedom Schools were, he adds the brutal murder of on James Chaney to his article to depict what was the risk of simply being associated with the schools could possibly lead to. Along with the Freedom Schools there were schools for adults that also helped agent in social change throughout Mississippi which were dedicated to the “education for