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Freedom Schools Live to Teach Reading
Some 1,400 black college students left Knoxville, Tenn., last week to serve as ”freedom school” teachers. The goal: to ignite excitement about reading among inner city and rural elementary, middle school and high school students. Since 1995 more than 10,000 black students trained by the Children’s Defense Fund have participated in one of the least-known…
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Party Lines Blur in the Florida Senate Race
The national struggle for the soul of the Republican Party has now moved to Florida’s Senate race. And the battleground reveals with great clarity the mounting conflict between party loyalty, ideology and ambition. This April, Florida’s Republican governor, Charlie Crist, found himself unexpectedly trailing former Republican House Speaker Marco Rubio for his party’s nomination as…
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SNCC at 50
In July 1962, I went with two students from Jackson, Mississippi’s sit-in movement to a little town in Sunflower County called Ruleville. We’d only been in town for a couple of days when, while walking down a dirt road, a car stopped in front of us. A white man holding a pistol ordered us into…
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