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JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): And it’s been 50 years since Freedom Summer galvanized the civil rights movement, registering voters in Mississippi and urging them to the polls.
But the young volunteers focused on the children as well, creating Freedom Schools that still exist in another form today.
Gwen reports for our American Graduate series. It’s a public media initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): Marian Wright Edelman was a young lawyer when she headed south half-a-century ago determined to change the world.
Were you breeding young activists?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN, Children’s Defense Fund: Absolutely.
And this — when you begin to teach people about the importance of reading — and Frederick Douglass talked about the importance of literacy to anything. Once you know how to read, it’s very hard to make you a slave.
And, secondly, once you learn about your history, and learn to question, rather than just to accept, you create a new child.
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