CDF Freedom Colleges 60 for 60 Learn Aloud Marketing campaign – The Brown Bookshelf

We’re proud to assist Youngsters’s Protection Fund (CDF) Freedom Facultys as they commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Freedom Summer season of 1964. To mark that milestone, they’re recruiting 60 historically printed kids’s e-book creators to learn at Freedom Colleges across the nation on the morning of Wednesday, July 17.  Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati of the African American Youngsters’s Ebook Challenge helps with the recruitment effort.

Be taught extra concerning the venture, the place faculties are positioned and join right here: Youngsters’s Protection Fund Freedom Colleges: 60 For 60: Defending the Freedom to Learn in Honor of the Freedom Summer season of 1964 (signupgenius.com).

This initiative is part of the CDF Freedom Colleges annual Nationwide Day of Social Motion (NDSA) venture, during which 13,000+ Okay-12 students and communities will march, protest, and demand communities and elected officers to shield the liberty to learn.

Youngsters’s e-book creators who’ve signed up to this point embody Tracey Baptiste, Alice Faye Duncan, Zetta Elliott, Rita Lorraine Hubbard, Dinah Johnson, Jeanine Jones, Sharon Langley, Kelly Starling Lyons, Torrey Maldonado, Andrew Maraniss, Shaughnessy Miller, Tanisia Moore, Shelia P. Moses, Judy Carey Nevin, Ngeri Nnachi, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Lisa Stringfellow, Artika Tyner and Leslie Youngblood.

Discover out extra about this vital marketing campaign right here and on this Publishers Weekly article. Please share extensively. Thanks on your assist.