Talk:Tyree Scott Freedom School

First Copyedit
I went through and tried to wikify this somewhat. While well written and researched, it would greatly benefit from more "eyes-on". Much of the copy is direct copy and paste from the sources used, and need a more objective tone (per tags). I've gone through about 1/2 of the article, but it needs a lot more Ched (talk) 03:23, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

consolidating
I've been moving material to Freedom Summer. (That doesn't appear below.) Here's material I've removed as unsourced or belonging elsewhere:

This Freedom Summer campaign was organized by the Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations; a coalition including the Mississippi branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Young SNCC organizers began the Freedom Summer Project, and together with CORE they made up most of the lead organizers and staff. These young African American organizers were incredibly courageous and energetic, working with untraditional creativity, energy and boldness during Freedom Summer.

Freedom Summer also brought one thousand volunteers to Mississippi to work with these organizations during the summer of 1964. Before they arrived in Mississippi the volunteers went through intensive trainings about: structural racism, nonviolence, the philosophy of the Civil Rights Movement, daily life in Mississippi, and much more. They met with civil rights organizers Bob Moses (director of the Freedom Summer Project), Bayard Rustin, Stokely Carmichael, and Fannie Lou Hamer, among many others.

Most of the Freedom Summer volunteers were whites with access to privilege and wealth, which allowed them to volunteer for long periods of time. These volunteers were outsiders in the communities they worked in, and they struggled to build lasting trust and create sustainable change that would be carried on after they left Mississippi. However, the presence of these white college students interested the media, and hundreds of reporters came to Mississippi from around the country to cover the campaign, internationally publicizing Freedom Summer.

Freedom Summer workers assisted with voter registration because organizers believed that a large group of African American voters could make political change happen. They used the issue of voter registration to build support for the Civil Rights Movement and bring national attention to systemic racism in the south.

Freedom Summer organizers brought national attention to the long-term, systematic disenfranchisement of Black Americans, contributing to the creation of the 1964 Civil Rights and 1965 Voting Rights Acts which outlawed public segregation and criminalized the tactics Southern states had been using to prevent people from voting. The successes of Freedom Summer gave people a new confidence in community organizing and helped build and broaden the Civil Rights Movement as young organizers looked beyond integration and worked for structural changes to society. Freedom Summer also changed the face of the Civil Rights Movement as young people of all races became the base of rebellion and leadership.

&mdash;JerryFriedman (Talk) 22:41, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Another removal
I removed this as uncited and looking too promotional:

Freedom School speaks to young people and the issues they deal with on a day-to-day basis. “When young people experience an environment that speaks to their own life experiences and says that they can learn — an environment that encourages them to learn in a different way than the traditional public school or private school setting — we see that there’s brilliance in every young person,” says Dustin Washington. Freedom School students begin to look at themselves differently — to look at their communities and families differently, and that empowers people to take charge of their lives and their environment, which should be the purpose of education in the first place.

&mdash;JerryFriedman (Talk) 05:39, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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