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SUMMARY:What We Were Trying to Do and Why: Freedom Schools and Liberation Schools in the 1960s -Discussion with Charlie Cobb\, Zoharah Simmons and Ash-Lee Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Flyer: What We were Trying to Do \nRegister for the panel at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtcO2ppzgvGd3d3A65D3HfLp0WGpFqXVMV \nRead Something: \nCharlie Cobb\, “Organizing Freedom Schools\,” in C. Payne and Carol Sills Strickland. Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition. New York: Teachers College Press\, 2008. \nhttps://cornwall.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/cobb.-freedom-schools.pdf \nAsh-Lee Woodard Henderson\, “On Being Black\, Southern And Rural In The Time Of COVID-19\, “ Essence Magazine\, December \, 2020. \nhttps://www.essence.com/feature/black-southern-rural-covid-19-coronavirus/ \nGwendolyn Zoharah Simmons\,  “Veterans of Hope Interview\,” https://www.veteransofhope.org/veterans/gwendolyn-zoharah-simmons/ \n(Go to Interview Excerpts). \n  \nProject Advisors \nKaleena Berryman\, former Director\, Abbott Leadership Institute (parent engagement in Newark\, NJ).  \nJitu Brown\, National Director of the Journey for Justice Alliance (J4J) alliance of communty organizations.   \nCharles E. “Charlie” Cobb Jr. journalist\, professor\, author and activist. \nDr. Darleen Gearhart\, Director of Mathematics\, Newark Public Schools. \nJeanne Middleton Hairston \, former Director of Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools; former chair of the Department of Education\, Millsaps College; member of the Jackson\, Mississippi Board of Education.  \n Linda Darling-Hammond\, Charles Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University\, past president of the American Educational Research Association. \n Reverend Dr. William  Howard\, former pastor\, Bethany Baptist Church\, Newark; former member of the Children’s Defense Fund Board of Directors.   \nRobert “Bob” Moses. legendary organizer in the civil rights movement;  MacArthur Fellow\, founder of the Algebra Project (deceased). \nProfessor Paul Ortiz\, University of Florida\, author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States. \nProfessor Charles Payne\, Director of the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies at Rutgers University.   \nProfessor Theresa Perry\, author of  Young Gifted and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African American Students.  \n Dr. Mary Ann Reilly\, Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning for Newark Public Schools. \nSharon Smith\, parent organizer; President of Parents Unified for Local School Leadership\, Newark.  \nProfessor Angela Valenzuela– Director of the Texas Center for Education Policy; Director of the National Latino Education Research and Policy Project.  \n 
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