FREEDOM SCHOOL CURRICULUM
MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM SUMMER, 1964
Edited and Introduced by
Kathy Emery, Sylvia Braselmann, and Linda Reid Gold
A:
Introduction: Freedom Summer and the Freedom Schools
Teaching Materials: Questions and Activities
B: Supplementary Documents
Prospectus for the Mississippi Freedom Summer
COFO Flyer: Freedom Registration
Prospectus for a Summer Freedom School Program
Curriculum Conference Subgroup Report
Memo to Freedom School Teachers
Overview of the Freedom Schools
Notes on Teaching in Mississippi
Non-Material Teaching Suggestions (excerpt)
Profiles of Typical Freedom Schools
Mississippi Freedom Schools: New Houses of Liberty
Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1964,
The Freedom Schools: Concept and Organization
Platform of the Freedom School Convention
C: Freedom School Curriculum
Mathematics (excerpt)
Unit I: The Negro in Mississippi
Statistics on Education, Housing, Income, Employment and Health
The South as an Underdeveloped Country
Unit II: The Negro in the North
Unit III: Myths about the Negro
In White America (excerpt)
Negro History Study Questions II (NEW as of March 5, 2009, thanks to Jan Hillegas in Jackson MS for sending this manscript)
Development of Negro Power since 1900
Unit V: Poor whites, poor Negroes and their fears
Unit VI: Soul Things and Material Things
Statements of Discipline of Nonviolent Movements
Unit VII: The Movement, Part 1, Freedom rides and sit-ins
Unit VII: The Movement, Part 2, COFO’s Political Program
Rifle Squads or the Beloved Community
Voter Registration Laws in Mississippi