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THE JEWEL OF THE SUMMER -- FREEDOM SCHOOLS

THE JEWEL OF THE SUMMER -- FREEDOM SCHOOLS

In a savage and sizzling summer, Mississippi’s Freedom Schools were beacons of hope.

TEACHERS, teachers & healers, TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachersThe AtticJune 21, 2024Freedom Schools, Freedom Summer, 1964, Mississippi, Civil Rights Movement Comments

MISSISSIPPI'S MOSES

As Freedom Summer’s 60th approaches, its architect stirs memories and awe.

HEROESThe AtticJune 12, 2024Bob Moses, Civil Rights Movement, Freedom Summer, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Mississippi, Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney Comments

FAULKNER'S FINEST MOMENT

Shy and reclusive, he did not want to accept his Nobel in person. But he rose to the podium and lit a candle for humanity

BOOK-ISHThe AtticDecember 3, 2020Faulkner, William Faulkner, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize for Literature, Absalom Absalom, Mississippi, Oxford Comments

FANNIE LOU HAMER -- IS THIS AMERICA?

Fannie Lou Hamer was the soul of Mississippi’s civil rights movement. Soon all of America would hear her voice.

REBELSThe AtticDecember 27, 2018Women, History, People of Color, 1960s, Fannie Lou Hamer, Freedom Summer, Mississippi, 1964 Democratic National Convention, Is This America? Comments