Education is the seed of freedom Welcome to the Sunflower County Freedom Project's home page! We hope you will use this site to learn more about our project, our students, and our successful Freedom School summer enrichment program. You will also find links to sites that will educate you about slavery, the civil rights movement, and other important aspects of American History. Join us as we prepare our children for leadership in the 21st century with Freedom School 2001!
Frequently
Asked Questions
Freedom
Summer '99 Photo Album
Freedom
Tour Photo Album
After students completed their summer classes, they took a nine-day tour of historical, educational, and recreational sites across the South. Take a look at some of the fabulous places they went!
Students'
Civil Rights Movement Web Pages
As part of their Freedom Summer '99 computer lab class, students used the Internet to conduct research on the civil rights movement. Choosing a particular person or event from the movement, they then created their own web pages displaying their research papers. Please read through their work to learn more about the movement.
Events
Links
to American History sites
Sites on Slavery
Civil
Rights Movement Sites
Freedom
Project supporters
At Freedom Project, we believe that education is valuable and families can and should be expected to sacrifice to provide top-quality educational opportunities for their children. If our Freedom Summer programs were free, then students may not take them seriously enough. We demand hard work, daily attendance, and full participation; by requiring students to raise $200 for their tuition, we insure that they will be committed to our project. At the same time, however, we want to make sure that all children have the opportunity to raise their tuition, so we hold local fundraisers several times during the year. All children who want to attend Freedom Summer have the chance to do so.
The true cost of Freedom Summer, however, runs close to $700 per student -- quite an efficient use of resources, considering that we provide six weeks of classes, a student-teacher ratio of 7 to 1, and more than a week of educational travel. Most of our funding comes from individual donations, corporate contributions, and foundation grants.
We would like to thank all the generous donors who have made the Sunflower County Freedom Project possible. Dozens of people from all across the nation have sent money and books or offered their services free of charge to help make the Freedom Project a reality. We extend a special thanks to our major funders:
Partners ($10,000 +)
