Star Tribune14d
Review: What were the secret schools that helped prepare Black people to vote?
If there were any doubts about the human capacity to marginalize and suppress, Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom” is an excellent reminder. From the lead-up to 1954 — when the U.S. Supreme ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press18d
Review: ‘Spell Freedom’ looks at literacy schools in the segregated South, including Monteagle’s Highlander Folk School
"SPELL FREEDOM: THE UNDERGROUND SCHOOLS THAT BUILT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT" by Elaine Weiss (Atria / One Signal Publishers, 384 pages, $30). There are many tenacious individuals in Elaine Weiss ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution29d
‘Spell Freedom’ celebrates unsung educators behind the Civil Rights Movement
When the Supreme Court announced the landmark ruling of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, putting an end to state-sanctioned segregation of public schools, Septima Clark, the widowed ...