Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother Paul attend a new school built for freed slaves.

Joseph P. Viteritti is the Blanche D. Blank Professor of Public Policy at Hunter College, CUNY. His many books include Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society. The presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened to use religion to govern, while the Far Left has redoubled its efforts to evict religion from public life entirely. Fewer people on the...

In this book, staff from Plumpton House School reflect on their work, providing fascinating and uplifting insights into their ability to provide opportunities to change the mindsets of children let down or outside red by conventional education. The ability to choose makes us different from all other living things. It doesn't make us perfect, it just leaves us responsible. The stories told here are raw, empathetic, and real and at the same time affirm...

Are you tired of living from paycheck to paycheck? Do you often question why the system is the way it is? Do you feel undervalued in a job that limits your potential? Then this book will demystify why the capitalist-employee model will not make you financially free and what you can do now to achieve it. Too many people are trapped in the conventional paycheck-to-paycheck mentality. Sure it does pay the bills, but it also limits your true value and...

Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates, had a crucial role in the civil rights movement and a major impact on the development of progressive education throughout the nation. Designed...

Last time out Titanium Rex and the League of Freedom schooled an army of clone bastards and this time out they're up against a horde of goose-stepping Nazi sons-of-bitches! Filled with puerile humor, innuendo, crude & offensive imagery and coarse jokes masquerading as wit, basically it's just more of the same but with different jokes. Welcome to SuperMansion.

Florence Howe has led an audacious life: she created a freedom school during the civil rights movement, refused to bow to academic heavyweights who were opposed to sharing power with women, and founded a feminist publishing house at a time when books for and about women were few. Sustained by her relationships with iconic writers like Grace Paley, Tillie Olsen, and Marilyn French, she traveled the world as an emissary for women's empowerment. Howe's...

"In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundred college students to Mississippi to help black Americans already battling for democracy, their dignity and the right to vote. The campaign was called "Freedom Summer." But on the evening after volunteers arrived, three young civil rights workers went missing, presumed victims of the Ku Klux Klan. The disappearance...

In 1955, eleven-year-old Stephanie O'Brian moves with her family to Clarkstown, Mississippi. In her loneliness, she meets and becomes BFF with a black girl her age named Ay'isha Hendricks. Her love of adventure is fueled when Ay'isha introduces her to an abandoned antebellum mansion. But her childish fantasies are shattered when she sees the injustice of poverty and segregation her new friend and others living in Frog Bottom must endure. The ancient...