Chance for Change (eBook)

Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle

Crystal R. Sanders (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
266 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2781-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also provided black women with greater opportunities for political activism during a crucial time in the unfolding of the civil rights movement. Women who had previously worked as domestics and sharecroppers secured jobs through CDGM as teachers and support staff and earned higher wages. The availability of jobs independent of the local white power structure afforded these women the freedom to vote in elections and petition officials without fear of reprisal. But CDGM's success antagonized segregationists at both the local and state levels who eventually defunded it.Tracing the stories of the more than 2,500 women who staffed Mississippi's CDGM preschool centers, Sanders's book remembers women who went beyond teaching children their shapes and colors to challenge the state's closed political system and white supremacist ideology and offers a profound example for future community organizing in the South.

Autor

Crystal R. Sanders is assistant professor of history and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 23 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Aaron Henry • Alice Giles • black women’s • black women’s history • Bolivar County • Civil Rights Act • Civil rights in Mississippi • Community action • Delta Ministry • Dick Boone • Early childhood education • Economic Opportunity Act • Fannie Lou Hamer • freedom schools • Freedom Summer • Head Start • James Meredith • John Mudd • John Stennis • Marian Wright Edelman • Mary Holmes Junior College • maximum feasible participation • Mississippi Delta • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party • Office of Economic Opportunity • Paul Johnson • Polly Greenberg • Presbyterian Church USA • Sargent Shriver • southern history • Sunflower County • Tougaloo • Unita Blackwell • Voting Rights Act • War on Poverty • white supremacy • working-class African Americans
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2781-7 / 1469627817
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2781-6 / 9781469627816