Spell freedom the underground schools that built the civil rights movement

"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 shar...

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Main Author: Weiss, Elaine, 1952- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2025.
Edition:First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Monteagle 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.