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Danky Fellow Print Culture Colloquium: The Amazing Freedom Summer Freedom School Newspapers.
| Location: | Wisconsin, United States |
| Lecture Date: | 2010-09-21 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-09-02 |
| Announcement ID: |
178593 |
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Tuesday, September 21, 12:00 Noon-1:00 p.m.
SLIS Commons
4207 Helen C. White Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Freedom Summer is the most widely documented campaign of the modern African American Civil Rights Movement. Freedom Schools themselves have received widespread attention and are currently duplicated by various organizations across the country. But most of this scholarship and interest focuses on the pedagogy and curriculum of Freedom Schools. However widely recognized, scholars have paid scant attention to the impact of the 1964 Freedom Schools on their actual students. Ironically, black Mississippians have often been left out of the Freedom Summer narrative. William Sturkey’s project will tell the stories of the young people who attended those 1964 Freedom Schools. It seeks to provide a long term analysis of the impact of Freedom Schools. Rather than gauge Freedom Summer within a Civil Rights-era vacuum, William’s dissertation will consider the entirety of the Freedom School project from execution to the present day.
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