LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) – Embedded in the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, the Freedom School was created to empower young people to recognize their full potential.
The Bradfield Community Center is home to the Children’s Defense Fund’s Freedom School, where kindergarten through eighth-grade students will spend the next six weeks learning about both historic and present-day issues through reading and book discussions.
“All of the books that the scholars read during the summer look like them,” said Bliss Hairston, project director. “The idea of Freedom School is for the scholars to immerse themselves in the actual reading, so that they can see themselves as the characters in the books. Along with the reading, they have different projects that they work on so that we know they understood what they were reading.”
Freedom School will run through July, with a graduation ceremony scheduled for August 1.
