TY - GEN T1 - A chance for change : Head Start and Mississippi's black freedom struggle T2 - John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. A1 - Sanders, Crystal LA - English PP - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press YR - 2016 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn945612385 AB - "With the founding of the Child Development Group of Mississippi in the 1960s came a major shift for black, working-class women. CDGM was a federally funded program for low-income preschoolers; in addition to helping children, it also suddenly allowed women who had been working as maids and sharecroppers to find jobs as teachers and use their positions to challenge the status quo. The teachers' jobs came with higher salaries that now enabled them to vote, buy food stamps, and send their children to previously all-white schools. Moreover, they organized communities, petitioned officials, and sat on community action boards. The teachers challenged the pervasive white power structure, but local and state governments fought back, ultimately diminishing the power of Head Start and similar programs in the South. Crystal Sanders traces the stories of the more than 2,500 women who staffed Mississippi's CDGM preschool centers and strove for change"-- OP - 250 CN - E185.86 .S257 2016 SN - 9781469627823 SN - 1469627825 SN - 9781469627816 SN - 1469627817 SN - 9781469627809 SN - 1469627809 KW - Child Development Group of Mississippi : History. KW - Child Development Group of Mississippi KW - African Americans : Social conditions : 1964-1975. KW - African American women : Mississippi : Social conditions. KW - African American teachers and the community : Mississippi. KW - African Americans : Civil rights : Mississippi : History : 20th century. KW - Head Start programs : Mississippi. KW - Noirs américains : Conditions sociales : 1964-1975. KW - Noires américaines : Mississippi : Conditions sociales. KW - Relations enseignants noirs américains-collectivité : Mississippi. KW - Noirs américains : Droits : Mississippi : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Programmes Head Start : Mississippi. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Women's Studies. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Civil Rights. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Human Rights. KW - African American teachers and the community KW - African American women : Social conditions KW - African Americans : Civil rights KW - African Americans : Social conditions KW - Head Start programs KW - Mississippi KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -