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A Chance for Change Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle / Crystal Sanders.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanders, Crystal, author.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Head Start programs--Mississippi.
- Head Start programs.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African American teachers and the community--Mississippi.
- African American teachers and the community.
- African American women--Mississippi--Social conditions.
- African American women.
- African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975.
- Child Development Group of Mississippi--History.
- Child Development Group of Mississippi.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908491-8-2
- 979-88-908491-9-9
- 1-4696-2781-7
- 1-4696-2782-5
- OCLC:
- 945612385
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