Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement by Weiss, Elaine
Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement by Weiss, Elaine

Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

The acclaimed author of the "stirring, definitive, and engrossing" (NPR) The Woman's Hour returns with the story...
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Author: Elaine Weiss
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Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement by Weiss, Elaine

Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

$67.93
Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement by Weiss, Elaine

Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

$67.93
Author: Elaine Weiss
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The acclaimed author of the "stirring, definitive, and engrossing" (NPR) The Woman's Hour returns with the story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement.

In the summer of 1954, educator Septima Clark and small businessman Esau Jenkins travelled to rural Tennessee's Highlander Folk School, an interracial training center for social change founded by Myles Horton, a white southerner with roots in the labor movement. There, the trio united behind a shared mission: preparing Black southerners to pass the daunting Jim Crow era voter registration literacy tests that were designed to disenfranchise them.

Together with beautician-turned-teacher Bernice Robinson, they launched the underground Citizenship Schools project, which began with a single makeshift classroom hidden in the back of a rural grocery store. By the time the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, the secretive undertaking had established more than nine hundred citizenship schools across the South, preparing tens of thousands of Black citizens to read and write, demand their rights--and vote. Simultaneously, it nurtured a generation of activists--many of them women--trained in community organizing, political citizenship, and tactics of resistance and struggle who became the grassroots foundation of the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King called Septima Clark, "Mother of the Movement."

In the vein of Hidden Figures and Devil in the Grove, Spell Freedom is both a riveting, crucially important lens onto our past, and a deeply moving story for our present.

Author: Elaine Weiss
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers
Published: 03/04/2025
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9781668002698
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