CDF Freedom Schools
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Education
The Impact of Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools™ on Young Future Leaders
Take it all the way back to the summer of 1964, a year after four Black girls were killed in the bombing of a Birmingham church, when young civil rights leader Marian Wright Edelman helped begin the Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi.
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Education
My CDF Freedom Schools experience
A letter written to Children's Defense Fund supporters by by Keely Norris, Ed.S, educator and CDF Freedom Schools® Ella Baker Trainer alumna.
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Education
My son’s life-altering experience
A letter written to Children's Defense Fund supporters by Reyna Hinson, a proud CDF Freedom Schools® parent.
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CDF Freedom Schools® Spotlight: Antoinette MaGee
When Antoinette MaGee was pregnant she remembers hearing about the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools® program. And once she learned more about it, and visited a site, she was sold. “I knew I wanted my baby to be in the program,” she said. “I used to say ‘Please, Paula just stay around long enough so that I can put my baby in the program.”
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CDF Freedom Schools® Spotlight: Courtney Linsey
Courtney Linsey’s grandfather was a bishop for the Christian Episcopal Methodist Church, went to high school with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was once even arrested with him for civil disobedience during one of King’s many protests against segregation during the Civil Rights Movement.
