Related to that book and topic, there is an activist organization in Detroit that sends youths from today on an educational trip based on the civil rights era freedom summer.
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary
of Mississippi Freedom Schools
June 18 - 19, 2004
Detroit Summer Youth Space 3611 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48201 (between Wayne State and downtown, half a block north of MLK Blvd.)
By adapting the lessons of Mississippi Freedom Summer to today's schools, we can: empower our children to see themselves as change agents and active citizens. transform our schools so that despair is replaced by hope. unite the desire to learn with the commitment to rebuild our communities and take back our cities and our nation.
For more information, please contact: Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership Phone: (313)923-0797 Fax: (313)923-0798 Email: boggscenter at boggscenter.org Web: www.boggscenter.org
CB
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Why don't people who are seriously interested do a group reading of the outstanding book on this topic, _Freedom Summer_.
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