A chance for change : Head Start and Mississippi's black freedom struggle / Crystal R. Sanders.
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TextSeries: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781469627823
- 1469627825
- Child Development Group of Mississippi -- History
- Child Development Group of Mississippi
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1964-1975
- African American women -- Mississippi -- Social conditions
- African American teachers and the community -- Mississippi
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Head Start programs -- Mississippi
- Noirs américains -- Conditions sociales -- 1964-1975
- Noires américaines -- Mississippi -- Conditions sociales
- Relations enseignants noirs américains-collectivité -- Mississippi
- Noirs américains -- Droits -- Mississippi -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Programmes Head Start -- Mississippi
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights
- African American teachers and the community
- African American women -- Social conditions
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- Head Start programs
- Mississippi
- 1900-1999
- 323.1196/0730762 23
- E185.86 .S257 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
Introduction: taking rights -- Reading is power -- A revolution in expectations -- I'd do it for nothing the way I feel -- Senator Stennis is watching -- Say it isn't so, Sarge -- Epilogue: a constant struggle.
"With the founding of the Child Development Group of Mississippi in the 1960s came a major shift for black, working-class women. CDGM was a federally funded program for low-income preschoolers; in addition to helping children, it also suddenly allowed women who had been working as maids and sharecroppers to find jobs as teachers and use their positions to challenge the status quo. The teachers' jobs came with higher salaries that now enabled them to vote, buy food stamps, and send their children to previously all-white schools. Moreover, they organized communities, petitioned officials, and sat on community action boards. The teachers challenged the pervasive white power structure, but local and state governments fought back, ultimately diminishing the power of Head Start and similar programs in the South. Crystal Sanders traces the stories of the more than 2,500 women who staffed Mississippi's CDGM preschool centers and strove for change"-- Provided by publisher.
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 6, 2021).
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