Validity of Questionnaire Data: Reported and Observed Attendance in an Adult Education Program

1968 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene C. Hagburg
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Questionnaire Data

Adult Education Program of the NAACP

1945 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 403
Author(s):  
Roy Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Education Program

The Birth of the Citizenship Schools: Entwining the Struggles for Literacy and Freedom

2004 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Levine
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Christian Leadership ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The People ◽  
Southern Christian Leadership Conference ◽  
Citizenship Schools

In a 1981 interview, civil rights leader Andrew Young commented, “If you look at the black elected officials and the people who are political leaders across the South now, it's full of people who had their first involvement in civil rights in the Citizenship Training Program.” Informally known as Citizenship Schools, this adult education program began in 1958 under the sponsorship of Tennessee's Highlander Folk School, which handed it over to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1961. By the time the project ended in 1970, approximately 2500 African Americans had taught these basic literacy and political education classes for tens of thousands of their neighbors. The program never had a high profile, but civil rights leaders and scholars assert that it helped to bring many people into the movement, cultivated grassroots leaders, and increased black participation in voting and other civic activities.

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