The freedom schools: student activists in the Mississippi civil rights movement

Introduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools

"The pathway from slavery to freedom" : the origins of education and the ideology of liberation in Mississippi

"There was something happening" : the civil rights education and politicization of the freedom school students

"The student as a force for social change" : the politics and organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools

"We will walk in the light of freedom" : attending and teaching in the freedom schools

"We do hereby declare independence" : educational activism and reconceptualizing freedom after the summer campaign

Carrying forth the struggle : freedom schools and contemporary educational policy

Epilogue: Remembering the freedom schools fifty years later.