FREEDOM SCHOOLS

The African American Museum is launching two sessions of “Freedom Schools” from July to September and October to December, 2024.

The Freedom Schools at the African American Museum are inspired by the “Freedom Schools” taught during the Freedom Summer Project sponsored by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi in 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 and a guest educator. Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney, the museum’s deputy director and chief operations officer, is a former UT-Arlington history department chair and African American studies professor. He is also the national president of ASALH. Robert Edison, the museum’s curator of education, is a Dallas ISD teacher of the year and Fulbright Scholar. Anthony Guillory holds a Ph.D. in African American Studies from the University of Massachusetts and is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at UT-Arlington.

Please make a donation to the to the African American Museum to register.

From: $5.00

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