Synthesis/Regeneration 5   (Winter 1993)


Mississippi Freedom School Curriculum, 1964



THE BASIC SET OF QUESTIONS IS:


THE SECONDARY SET OF QUESTIONS IS:


UNIT I: COMPARISON OF STUDENT'S REALITY WITH OTHERS

Purpose: To create an awareness that there are alternatives.


UNIT II: NORTH TO FREEDOM? (THE NEGRO IN THE NORTH)

Purpose: To help the students see clearly the conditions of the Negro in the North, and see that migration to the North is not a basic solution.


UNIT III: EXAMINING THE APPARENT REALITY (THE "BETTER LIFE" THAT WHITES HAVE)

Purpose: To find out what the whites' "better life" is really like, and what it costs them.


UNIT IV: INTRODUCING THE POWER STRUCTURE

Purpose:

UNIT V: THE POOR NEGRO, THE POOR WHITE, AND THEIR FEARS

Purpose:

UNIT VI: MATERIAL THINGS AND SOUL THINGS

Purpose:

UNIT VII: THE MOVEMENT

Purpose: To grasp the significance of direct action and of political action as instruments of social change.



(Excerpted and reprinted with kind permission of Radical Teacher: 1991, "Mississippi Freedom School Curriculum - 1964," Radical Teacher 40, pp. 6-29.)


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