Selects: What were the Freedom Schools?

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🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Freedom Schools were set up in Mississippi in the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, with the aim of giving young black school children agency and a future. They remain one of the more inspiring and progressive programs in American History, yet so few know about them. We're hoping to change that. Learn all about them in this classic episode.

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1:12.2	Saturday morning cartoons and you are in your
1:13.9	comfiest chair because the select that I'm picking for you is a great history
1:19.2	episode from October 2019. What were the freedom schools?
1:24.6	It's a great story that needed to be told by us,
1:28.7	and so we did so.
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