A Revolution in Expectations | A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle | North Carolina Scholarship Online (2024)

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Crystal R. Sanders

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Sanders, Crystal R., 'A Revolution in Expectations', A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle (Chapel Hill, NC, 2016; online edn, North Carolina Scholarship Online, 22 Sept. 2016), https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469627809.003.0003, accessed 27 July 2024.

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Chapter Two explores how the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) Head Start program became an integral part of Mississippi’s civil rights movement from 1965 to 1968. The early childhood education program provided employment opportunities for black activists who lost their jobs because of their political activity or because of their relationship with activists. Pap Hamer, the husband of Fannie Lou Hamer, and Roxie Meredith, the mother of James Meredith, secured Head Start employment after suffering reprisals because of their connection to the civil rights movement. CDGM replicated the curriculum of the 1964 freedom schools, emphasizing black history and social justice in the classroom. The chapter demonstrates how War on Poverty programs furthered civil rights in southern communities.

Keywords: Head Start, Civil rights movement, War on Poverty, Fannie Lou Hamer, James Meredith, Freedom schools, Mississippi, Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM), Early childhood education, Reprisals

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