Clemons explains that the Freedom Schools curriculum was designed to be an antidote to the watered-down learning materials available to African American children in their public schools. Hale explains that the first Freedom School emerged during the summer of 1964 in Mississippi when, in the face of persistent de jure segregation and the exclusion of African American children from access to high-quality schooling, Southern civil rights activists created a Freedom School to offer African American children high-quality opportunities to learn. In this month’s episode of NEPC Talks Education, NEPC Researcher Christopher Saldaña interviews Kristal Moore Clemons, the national director of the Children’s Defense Fund’s Freedom Schools program Kendall Deas, a post-doctoral fellow in the African American Studies program at the University of South Carolina and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign professor Jon Hale about Freedom Schools.
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