EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Freedom Schools at the African American Museum -cosponsored by the Dallas-Fort Worth Branch of ASALH
New classes begin on October 24, 2026 - Saturdays at the African American Museum, Dallas at 2:00 p.m.
The Freedom Schools at the African American Museum is inspired by the “Freedom Schools” taught during the Freedom Summer Project sponsored by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi in 1964. SNCC’s “Freedom Schools” focused on the teaching of Black History and preparing African Americans to vote in the Mississippi Democratic Party’s primary in the summer of 1964.
The weekly sessions will be taught by two of the Museum’s distinguished staff members, Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney, the museum’s Historian-in-Residence, and the former UT-Arlington history department chair and African American Studies professor. He is also the former national president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the nation’s oldest black history association. Robert Edison, the museum’s curator of education, is a Dallas ISD teacher of the year and a Fulbright Scholar.
Stay tuned for registration details.