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Weiss, Elaine, 1952-(author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781668002698
  • ISBN: 1668002698
  • Physical Description: vi, 377 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ... Read More
  • Edition: First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover ... Read More
  • Publisher: New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2025.

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24510. ‡aSpell freedom : ‡bthe underground schools that built the civil rights movement / ‡cElaine Weiss.
24630. ‡aUnderground schools that built the civil rights movement
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5050 . ‡aMonteagle mountain -- Henrietta street -- Esau's bus -- The judge -- Red Roadshow and Black Monday -- Radical hillbilly -- Prepare -- Deliberate speed -- The women from Montgomery -- We shall -- Rosa's bus -- Been in the storm -- Champions of democracy -- The grocery store -- Pencils -- Anniversary -- Communist training school -- A dangerous place -- Our America -- We are not afraid -- Padlock -- Sit the welcome table -- Wade in the water -- Tent city -- Literacy to liberation -- Freedom rides -- Born again -- Ready from within -- Tremor in the iceberg -- Project C -- A living petition -- Practicing democracy -- Lay our bodies on the line -- Ain't nobody gonna turn us 'round -- Signatures -- Eyes on the prize, hold on -- Sister help to trim the sail -- Going home -- Good chaos.
520 . ‡a"In the summer of 1954, educator Septima Clark and small businessman Esau Jenkins travelled to rural Tennessee's Highlander Folk School, an interracial training center for social change founded by Myles Horton, a white southerner with roots in the labor movement. There, the trio united behind a shared mission: preparing Black southerners to pass the daunting Jim Crow era voter registration literacy tests that were designed to disenfranchise them. Together with beautician-turned-teacher Bernice Robinson, they launched the underground Citizenship Schools project, which began with a single makeshift classroom hidden in the back of a rural grocery store. By the time the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, the secretive undertaking had established more than nine hundred citizenship schools across the South, preparing tens of thousands of Black citizens to read and write, demand their rights--and vote. Simultaneously, it nurtured a generation of activists--many of them women--trained in community organizing, political citizenship, and tactics of resistance and struggle who became the grassroots foundation of the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King called Septima Clark, 'Mother of the Movement.' In the vein of Hidden Figures and Devil in the Grove, Spell Freedom is both a riveting, crucially important lens onto our past, and a deeply moving story for our present."-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
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