A Chance for Change : Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle /

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"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 sha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sanders, Crystal (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Child Development Group of Mississippi.
Child Development Group of Mississippi > History.
Head Start programs.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American teachers and the community.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Programmes Head Start > Mississippi.
Noirs americains > Droits > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Relations enseignants noirs americains-collectivite > Mississippi.
Noires americaines > Mississippi > Conditions sociales.
Noirs americains > Conditions sociales > 1964-1975.
Head Start programs > Mississippi.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African American teachers and the community > Mississippi.
African American women > Mississippi > Social conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions > 1964-1975.
Mississippi.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (266 pages).
ISBN:9781469627823

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