The Prairie Landscape

Civil Rights Institute

Grant Details


Grantee
Chicago Freedom School

Where
719 S State St, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2541

Award
$10,000
A six-week summer program for 30 youth, ages 14 to 16, to be held July 3 to August 8 of 2008. Participants in this program will explore the role of young people in a variety of social movements in the past so that they may develop the tools to participate in community building and social change activities. Participants will learn about Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, LGBTQ and Disability Rights activism, in addition to the Civil Rights Movement.



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