Education for Liberation: Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Charles E. Cobb (Full Video)

In this conversation, Charles E. Cobb traces the role of education in his youth, his transformative experiences as a student at Howard University, and his deepened activism and commitment to the movement for freedom in Mississippi. Cobb recognized that Black Americans in the United States — and especially in the South — strongly believed in voting rights and education. Building on this consensus, Cobb and other civil rights organizers planned the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project as an effort at liberation education and voter registration. The legacy of this model continues today.