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ERIC Number: EJ574566
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
We'll Never Turn Back: Adult Education and the Struggle for Citizenship in Mississippi's Freedom Summer.
Rachal, John R.
American Educational Research Journal, v35 n2 p167-98 Sum 1998
Discusses Freedom Summer, the voter registration and educational program conducted in Mississippi in the summer of 1964. The importance of adult education in this civil rights effort is analyzed in parallel with the work of Paulo Freire in Brazil. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Civil Rights, Democracy, Educational History, Low Income Groups, Minority Groups, United States History, Voter Registration
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Freire (Paulo); Mississippi
Note: Research supported by a grant from the University of Southern Mississippi.